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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nebo.vii.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: Freebsd or Slackware Linux ? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Nntp-Posting-User: le Lines: 18 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <E5runs.16q@nonexistent.com> References: <32fd0363.41392688@news> <32FF86B6.2781E494@zxcv-pc.jumpnet.com> X-Trace: 856223991/103 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 23:59:52 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35648 J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : tzs@halcyon.com (Tim Smith) wrote: : : > >I'm not disappointed about *BSD's hardware support. It runs on : > >every 'standard' PC (i.e. if you don't use *rather* exotic hardware). : > : > IDE CD-ROM is rather exotic hardware!? : : No, that's why you can use it with FreeBSD 2.2. :-) Remember, : FreeBSD 2.1.x is technologically seen a more than one year old : system. I've noticed that ever since 2.0Alpha,each release(2.0R/2.0.5/2.1/2.1.5/ 2.1.6/now 2.1.7) has been essentially a bugfix of the last... but also,a lot of the "What's new since 2.1.6" stuff in the 2.2G release notes is reproduced in the "What's new since 2.2.x" list in the 3.0SNAP release notes!This needs cleaning up...