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From: deraad@CUTL.City.UniSA.edu.au (Mark de Raad)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Help, I may switch to Linux!
Date: 15 Jun 1994 13:43:30 GMT
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Othman Ahmad (othman@oasys.pc.my) wrote:
 @:>dga@netcom.com (Dennis Allard) writes:

 @:>> Way back in July of 1992, I recall, I downloaded 386BSD to
 @:>> floppies and attempted to install to my 386.  Basically, the

 @:>I believe that now the 386bsd is much more stable.

May I suggest that you also consider trying the other flavours of
BSD (ie FreeBSD 1.1 and NetBSD current) which are certainly stable
and indeed are coming of age as far as installation is concerned.

Available from ftp servers everywhere!

Mark
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