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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 11 Feb 1997 14:34:36 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <5doc1s$jhd$1@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>,
Mr Stuart Lamble <lamble@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> That's probably the major reason for using Linux over FreeBSD - from all
> accounts, Linux is very much more IDE friendly than BSD.

In what way? I've never had any IDE problems with FreeBSD. Hell, the first
box I set up was on dual 380MB ESDI drives. IDE would have been a major step
up.
-- 

             The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.

                  Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-'