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From: Thom Henderson <thom@esva.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Shell Menu, and other questions...
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 15:21:55 -0400
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On Tue, 12 Sep 1995, The Green Dragon wrote:

> As a new user to BSDi, I didn't find it "turn key" like I've heard it
> advertised.  
<snip>

Your mileage may vary.  I pretty much just plugged it in and turned it 
on.  It was a refreshing change from Linux, which (for me) was a long 
sequence of "load the OS / work until it trashes the disk / reformat."

That got real old real quick.