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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.silcom.com!usenet 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. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <01bc1795$c7e857b0$57c147cf@jbushakra> References: <32fd0363.41392688@news> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm4-8.sba.silcom.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35446 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. ?????? >