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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.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Freebsd or Slackware Linux ? Date: 16 Feb 1997 20:52:04 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5e7s1k$qo0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32fd0363.41392688@news> <32FF86B6.2781E494@zxcv-pc.jumpnet.com> <5dol8k$l8v@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <3301CCF9.548@cleveland.freenet.edu> <5dvac7$34m@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <5e1bb4$8ob$1@halcyon.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35758 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. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)