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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 07:28:40 GMT
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In <2nq530$7hh@hecate.umd.edu> mark@elea.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes:
>I think it is *also* typical to blow DOS away and hope to never see it
>again.
>You may have noticed that many BSD users already have rather strong
>biases about what their computer should be like, and it doesn't include
>primitive boot loaders pretending to be operating systems. [ :) ] Also,
>notice that it seems to be a point of pride to say "My machine has been
>up for XX days." That also suggests a lack of DOS.
Actually most of the FreeBSD installations that I have been involved in
doing have been DOS/BSD installs (we didn't follow any "install
procedures" though).
You will find just as many Linux users who pride themselves in saying
that their system has been up XXXX days ;-)
>I think a lot of us don't *want* DOS on our machines, therefore haven't
>spent a lot of time figuring out how to make it work.
Most of us don't do installs very often, and therefor don't often think
of those people doing installs ;-)
I for one have only used the FreeBSD install once - just to see what it
looked like - most of the systems I have built are based on the old
hand-installation procedure for 386BSD-0.1 !!!
The FreeBSD install (can't speak for NetBSD) is getting nicer, and will
continue to get better as people make more input in forums like this.
(On an aside - I think that in both BSD camps install procedures have
been on the back burner because of the need to get _lots_ of serious
bugs removed from the old Net/2 code - we will probably see things like
install procedures coming along now that NetBSD and FreeBSD are stable.
I for one would also welcome it if someone went and built up a
Net/FreeBSD distribution based on the was the Linux ones work - a
distrib with apps etc included.)
Geoff.
(Just a happy FreeBSD user.)
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