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From: chester@mackeysparc.hinet.net (Chester H. Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Differences between Net/Free BSD?
Date: 26 Nov 1994 18:24:47 GMT
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Stormy Henderson (Stormy@StormCloud.MsState.EDU) wrote:

> I've been a Linux user for about 10 months, and am interested in trying one 
> of the BSD unixes.  I've ftped the FreeBSD 2.0a install disks, played around 
> with those, and also have done a full install of NetBSD 1.0, including recom-
> piling the kernel to use pcvt so I could have virtual consoles.

I am about to install either Linux or FreeBSD. But don't know to bet on
which one. Could you give us a hint _why_ you want to make the switch? :-)

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