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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12660 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3393 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!hermes.oc.com!news.kei.com!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!das-news.harvard.edu!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ??? Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc References: <31trcr$9n@euterpe.owl.de> <3256t1$rbn@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <327nj0$sfq@sundog.tiac.net> <hastyCuwH6z.BJ8@netcom.com> Message-ID: <9408252225.39@rmkhome.com> Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 03:25:40 GMT Lines: 21 Amancio Hasty Jr (hasty@netcom.com) wrote: : In article <327nj0$sfq@sundog.tiac.net> bill@bhhome.ci.net (Bill Heiser) writes: : >does soon! I don't want to have to dump LINUX, with it's nice complete : >"fully operational system out of the box" and go with the piecemeal *bsd : >products (not that there's anything wrong with *bsd, it's just less : >convenient to install since it requires days or weeks of hunting for : >utilities, compiling them, installing them, etc, whereas with LINUX : >distributions, all the useful stuff is already there). : If that is your only criteria, then you can dump linux because : you can hunt for many of the popular packages available for : FreeBSD at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD It's too bad that no one mirrors the /ports directory. The freebsd.cdrom.com site is overloaded about 18 hours of the day. Probably because it is of interest to *BSD and Linux users. -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.com rmk@bedford.progress.com