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From: mef@willow.cs.washington.edu (Marc Fiuczynski)
Subject: Re: A few words about BSDI
In-Reply-To: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM's message of 4 Sep 1993 17:37:29 -0400
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Date: 4 Sep 93 15:56:08
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   > [ it took them a full day to get BSDI installed correctly. ]
   It was interesting to note that the 1 day it took for them to install
   BSDI was nothing compared to the 7-day and 14-day experiences with the
   other Unixes!

I had to setup a few machines with BSDI that different hard drives,
...etc. It only took me 4 hours to do the full installation from a
remote CD.  Compared to other things that I have dealt with this is
pretty nice.

   They also said that BSDI had THE BEST support phone line (and most
   knowledgable people) they had experienced and they were impressed that
   BSDI was willing to put the patch (well, actually a new disk image) on
   their FTP server.

I really like their support email and the bsdi-users list.  

   They were also pretty blunt about BSDI being "Unix for Unix users".
   i.e. there aren't any "add user" shell scripts, BSDI is for people that
   KNOW unix and aren't afraid of editing /etc/passwd by hand.

YES! That's the way it should be. :)

Marc E. Fiuczynski

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