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From: jhong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (John Hong)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Curious...
Date: 10 Jul 1997 18:43:46 GMT
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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	This will certainly be a silly question but...  Is FreeBSD any
good?  It does seem easier to install than Linux as there is the only one
boot disk and no root disk to mess with.  But what other advantages are
there for FreeBSD?  Better, faster, etc. than Linux?