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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!news.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!subnet.sub.net!flatlin!logo!edu!utexas!ots!slip-2-70!lilo From: lilo@slip-2-70.ots.utexas.edu (lilo@slip-2-70.ots.utexas.edu) Date: 29 Mar 94 23:04:07 +0000 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <6e2_9404020118@logo.ka.sub.org> X-Mail-Agent: GIGO+ sn 51 at logo vsn 0.98w32 Organization: Private GIGO testing site Lines: 17 From: lilo@slip-2-70.ots.utexas.edu (lilo) Date: 29 Mar 1994 23:04:07 GMT On 26 Mar 1994 20:46:22 GMT, Herb Peyerl (hpeyerl@sidney) wrote: > : way to talk to my modem -- kermit is not there, I can't get tip > : to work, and there's just not any instructions anywhere. Plus, when > *BSD is an operating system. kermit is an application. XFree86 is also > an application as is TeX and many other things. Should every conceivable > application be shipped with the operating system? Probably. If you want the novice to have a working system out of the box. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. :) lilo