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From: ann@senet.com.au Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Trying to decide Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 05:39:41 +1030 Organization: SE Network Access News Site Lines: 20 Message-ID: <32bd870f.1033785@news.senet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup11.senet.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!mindspring!uunet!in2.uu.net!143.216.242.5!news.sa.gov.au!duster.adelaide.on.net!highlander.senet.com.au!usenet Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33426 After reading a couple of hundred messages and reading the FreeBSD handbook (which was not straight ASCII by the way) I have some questions before I run out and buy FreeBSD on CDROM. There is no way I'm downloading the whole 2.1.6 release. Is FreeBSD a good introduction to the world of free Unix-like PC operating systems? There seems to be different views on whether FreeBSD's handling of MSDos file systems is safe. (I got this impression from reading messages in FreeBSD groups) At this stage I would be looking at sharing a hard drive with FreeBSD and Dos, and I'd like to set up a logical Dos partition that both OSs can access. Don't ask me why I want to setup FreeBSD because I don't know myself. I have a friend who is always talking about Linux and I'd like to annoy him by using something different. Ann