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From: jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX?
Message-ID: <1993Aug19.213706.4304@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Sender: jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
References: <deeken.745789885@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 21:37:06 GMT
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From article <deeken.745789885@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>, by deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hannes Deeken):
>
> I hope FreeBSD 1.0 and/or NetBSD 0.9 have the concept of 'software packages'
> and means to install and deinstall them, at least for 'third party' software
> like X or TeX.
I haven't tried TeX yet, but the X for *BSD is real easy to deinstall:
rm -r /usr/X386
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John D. Boggs jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us
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