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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Munich.Germany.EU.net!news.mch.sni.de!news.sni.de!uni-paderborn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de!volker From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Linux vs. BSD?! Date: 23 Feb 1995 19:23:16 GMT Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3iinb4$35m@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> References: <3i7ar8$ahv@marton.hsr.no> <3i83js$avl@ivory.lm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sfb256.iam In article <3i83js$avl@ivory.lm.com> peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) writes: >NetBSD Cons: >------------ >o Actively hostile towards other OS's on the same disk. Wrong. > The > installation program is a crawling horror from the sewers > of hell. True. Once I had managed to install NetBSD, there was no hostility to other OSes whatsoever. I am running DOS, OS/2 Warp, and NetBSD 1.0 -- all coexisting and being started by the OS/2 boot manager. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Germany held hostage: Four more years? Volker A. Brandt Internet: volker@iam.uni-bonn.de Angewandte Mathematik Phone/FAX: +49 228 63 36 84 (Bonn, Germany)