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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!wb3ffv!usenet From: Tmartin@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us (Winter Dragon) Subject: Re: Questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD... Sender: usenet@abs.net Message-ID: <DJsyxr.DC3@abs.net> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 01:09:30 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ppp61.bcpl.lib.md.us Reply-To: Tmartin@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <HAFNER.95Dec12090710@suncog2.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de> <4akmcp$qii@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <4al9tu$f33@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <4b3tue$n03@huron.eel.ufl.edu> Organization: ABSnet Internet Services, Inc. - info@abs.net - (410)-361-8160 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Lines: 26 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:36148 alt.os.linux:6501 alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions:5158 comp.os.linux.advocacy:30709 comp.os.linux.misc:76205 comp.os.linux.setup:32797 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10707 For mostpeople wiht current hardware, its reall hard. Put the Cd into the tray, and run the setup program. Ugh, that's inmpossible. However, if your PC is over two years old, it gets hard. Ever try comparing a Power Pc sun to a previous one two years old?? It ain't much better than the comparision between a P-100 with win 95, and trying to get win 95 on a 486-33. cjdunn@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu (Christopher J. Dunn) wrote: >Chris Petit <mystere@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >> But be prepared to do some hacking --- both >> packages have come a LONG way in terms of ease- >>of-installation since the early days, but they still have >> some way to go to reach Win95's ease of installation. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >Excuse me? Pardon moose? I thought you said >Win95's ease of installation. Chah, right!!!!!!! Saying Windows 95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've seen the Second Coming." -Guy Kawasaki