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From: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux v FreeBSD Which?
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 20:26:45 -0500
Organization: Crystal Wind Communications
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Paul Nguyen wrote:
> Last time someone here tried to install Linux off the net there was no
> option to do so in the linux installation. And with the Linux
> distributions all in scattered places without any consistency from one
> site to another, there is no way you can tell if your next installation
> is somewhat close to your last unless you are doing it from cdrom. Let
> me tell you one thing, I can always get the latest and greatest version
> of FreeBSD installed on my system from scratch with only a boot disk and
> a ethernet card and an Internet Connection, but I know that everyone
> does not have a dedicated Internet connection.
While a dedicated connection is nice it is not a necessary. A decent
dial-up connection will work, sloooowwly but it works.
> With Linux, I must copy
> installation on to diskettes and swap disk, but with FTP installs, I
> can easily go do something more meaningful than watching the screen.
Yeah, like go to bed while the dial-up install loads. :) Get up the
next morning, reboot, and you start the day with an new installation.
--
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their
home."
-- Ken Olson, President of DEC, World Future Society
Convention, 1977