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From: "John" <john.bushakra@wyatt.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Freebsd or Slackware Linux ?
Date: 10 Feb 1997 13:04:39 GMT
Organization: Wyatt Technology Corp.
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FWIW:
FreeBSD burned down my house once too many times.  This time all I did was
mount_msdos.  Didn't even TRY to access any files.  The next thing I knew,
the entire file system was trashed.  And for the person who recently
mentioned in this newsgroup that they had never seen a problem that fsck
couldn't fix -- here is one for sure.

My 0.02:  if you expect to ever need to transfer files from a DOS partition
to BSD, forget it, stay with Linux.  That's what I'm doing.

-John.


Randy Shepherd <randys@dowco.com> wrote in article
<32fd0363.41392688@news>...
> Hi I could ues some help on which one to use and why. My reason for
> looking is that I want to learn unix. I have looked at both and sort
> of lean to BSD. I have  486dx 66   8meg ram   200 meg hd
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> Randy.
> 
> p.s. when do you expect 2..1.7.   ??????
>