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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!swrinde!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!en.com!in-news.erinet.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!nmia!gallup.cia-g.com!lithium From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 21:27:10 -0600 Organization: New Mexico Internet Access Lines: 47 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960509212509.5051H-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mnsc5$6qo@sundial.sundial.net> <318FD68B.60AD12F6@lambert.org> <4mouan$cpb@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gallup.cia-g.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4mouan$cpb@agate.berkeley.edu> On 8 May 1996, Nick Kralevich wrote: > In article <318FD68B.60AD12F6@lambert.org>, > Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: > >] Linux can be found on a endless number of vendors CDs for a > >] low as $10. > > > >Generally with a $39.95 book accompanying it... 8-). > > Linux CD-ROMs can be gotten for free. Check out the "Linux CD > and Support Giveaway" at http://emile.math.ucsb.edu:8000/giveaway.html That's sad when you have to give away CD's with your software on them. :) > In addition, there are one or two complete Linux books online. > Check out the Linux documentation project at > http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/ > > >And you probably really meant to > >say "saving me the agony of messing with an alpha-quality > >IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive". The driver works perfectly if your > >vendor didn't violate the ATAPI specification, one way or the > >other, or if you don't have one of the buggy (3 out of 5 of all > >available cards) IDE controllers. > > Are you saying that FreeBSD doesn't work on 3 out of 5 IDE CD-ROMS? > Ouch! Or perhaps I've misunderstood you... Hmm I've seen SCSI and ATAPI cdroms work great under fbsd.. > Has FreeBSD fixed their broken DOS FS support yet? Does > FreeBSD have VFAT (Win 95) support yet? I'm not very familar with this problem but I've never had a problem with FBSD's msdos fs.. > >Again, your choice to buy the hardware. > > That's not much consolation to a user who happens to have a non-working > (under FreeBSD) CD-ROM drive that they can get easially working under > Linux. - Steve - Systems Manager