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#! rnews 1952 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news.enteract.com!news.inetnebr.com!newsrelay.courtave.net!polo.iquest.com!news3.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Trying to decide Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 23:20:00 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 28 Message-ID: <32CCB320.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <32bd870f.1033785@news.senet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: ann@senet.com.au Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33548 ann@senet.com.au wrote: > After reading a couple of hundred messages and reading the FreeBSD handbook > (which was not straight ASCII by the way) I have some questions Those versions are provided at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/docs The files ending with a `latin1' suffix are in ASCII (ISO-Latin1) format. > Is FreeBSD a good introduction to the world of free Unix-like PC operating > systems? Certainly. > 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) It is still rather unsafe if you use the mount(8) interface to it. You can always use the mtools package in the ports collection, however, in safety. > 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. That's an interesting reason.. :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project