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From: dvg@tezcat.com (Dahlia Van Gelder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Newbie w/laptop 486! Please advise
Date: 28 Aug 1996 19:40:49 GMT
Organization: Breakfast at Tezcat.
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Hello there!  I have a 486DX NEC laptop with 20M RAM and 1/3G-HD (1.44)
and am hot to try to install UNIX.

Please advise on FreeBSD vs Linix.  Please advise on what the Terrible 
Hassles of Unix are.  I have heard how Bad It Is! (shiver)

What do I have now?  3.1  Why do I want to change it?  Java needs a 32 bit 
system and the alternative seems to be Win95.  Besides Unix is free.

What do I use it for?  Letters, documents, internet.  At present, 
netscape.  I considered OS/2 but unix has a community of users, could help 
me get a job, and did I mention it is free?

I may do graphics soon.  Want to get together.  I am the unlikely 
recipient of an Intergraph card.

Twas nice to speak to you.  Thanks for all the fish... and the help too.
Dahlianna