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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Will this configuration work OK?
Date: 9 May 94 06:12:39 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <2qk11b$9em@news.tamu.edu> hickman@prism.tamu.edu (Dan Hickman) writes:
>When it comes to NetBSD, I don't recommend it. I first tried installing
>it and had major problems. Here is a list of some of the major things
>I could not get to work.
>talk daemon did not work
>ftp daemon core dumped every time it was executed
>did not come with sendmail config file (never got sendmail to work correctly)
>installation procedure was more dificult than freebsd
>numerous other smaller problems
>had problems getting password enctyption working
I can't say that I've ever experienced any of these problems. And
I've been using NetBSD with every version since 0.8. (Actually, I'm a
pioneer from the 386BSD 0.0 days. ;-).
I don't know why you had those problems, but I know they aren't
typical of NetBSD.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
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