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From: Stormy@StormCloud.MsState.EDU (Stormy Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Differences between Net/Free BSD?
Date: 27 Nov 1994 01:49:24 GMT
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Chester H. Lin wrote:

   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, in-
   > cluding recompiling 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? :-)

Well, I'm a perfectionist.  I haven't found anything wrong with Linux, but I
can't bear the thought that I may be missing out on something better in a
*BSD.  (c:

Be happy...

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