Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.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!news.maz.net!news.ppp.net!news.Hanse.DE!wavehh.hanse.de!cracauer From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too) Message-ID: <1996Jan8.072945.1804@wavehh.hanse.de> Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4c9op2$k9o@mark.ucdavis.edu> <4ca3gu$4nc@news1.halcyon.com> <4cdijr$hjg@toplink1.toplink.net> <4cfq48$9lg@news1.halcyon.com> <1996Jan4.140833.18166@wavehh.hanse.de> <4cjm1k$eo2@news2.realtime.net> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 96 07:29:45 GMT Lines: 37 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:32386 alt.os.linux:6970 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11707 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1748 dhbrown@bga.com (Dave Brown) writes: >In article <1996Jan4.140833.18166@wavehh.hanse.de>, cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de >says... >> >>tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) writes: >> >>Easy: How can you know you will not need more than one CD drive in the >>future. How can you know you won't have to use this CD-ROM on a >>workstation someday? Buying SCSI means to lower the possibility to >>trough away equipment because you can't predict the future. >> >>No, either *add* the $200 or buy more memory after a while. You can't >>upgrade your CD-ROM to SCSI after a while. >> >>Martin >It's not a question of price differential between IDE and SCSI drives. It's >a case of throw away what you've got and get something different. So why do one already have junk equipment? It's a case of buy something that you will not have to through away in the near future. So you won't end up in a situation where you have to decide to throw away something. >It seems to me that what you're saying to all those folks who already have >IDE CDROMs is "go use Linux, FreeBSD is not for you." In a way, yes. Except that I'm using NetBSD, not FreeBSD. I don't speak for one of the developement teams. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> - Fax +49 40 522 85 36 BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany - No NeXTMail anymore, please. Copyright 1995. Redistribution via Microsoft Network is prohibited