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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!bonkers!peter From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: A few words about BSDI Organization: Taronga Park BBS References: <jmonroyCCtzDv.2vE@netcom.com> <26b1qp$t2f@sdl.warren.mentorg.com> Message-ID: <CCvuD2.4DC@taronga.com> Keywords: BSDI review Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1993 13:19:35 GMT Lines: 22 In article <26b1qp$t2f@sdl.warren.mentorg.com>, Tom Limoncelli <tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM> wrote: >They said that their original intention was to do one article comparing >the Unixes but after having such a total SHOCK of discovering how truly >horrid the PC architecture is, they decided to do Part 1 on their >installation nightmare and Part 2 as the real comparison. I think their installation nightmares were worse than they could have been. In all fairness to the PC architecture, I've only had similar nightmares when buying all-in-one boxes specced by some random loser assembly house. If you go buy all the bits yourself (AMI BIOS, Micronics motherboard, Adaptec 1542, Maxtor Panther, generic VGA with no fancy dot clock setup, etcetera) you can generally expect to have things work right straight out of the box. It's a damn shame, of course. Perhaps NT and Chicago will start pushing the envelope a bit and all the marginal hardware choices that people can get away with in DOS will fall by the wayside. Of course you won't have very good X. I'm still getting up to speed on video adaptors... anyone have suggestions? Particularly ones that go well with XFree86 and 386BSD? Like everyone else, I can't even BEGIN to parse Monroy's article.