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#! rnews 1979 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.spb.su!news.wplus.spb.ru!not-for-mail From: "Igor N Kovalenko" <infoh@mail.wplus.net> Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 4 Apr 1997 23:09:20 GMT Organization: InfoMarket Ltd. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <01bc414d$5b1dd420$4eb108c2@owl.wplus.net> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <01bc32f2$3783f300$04000001@Colin> <E79F14.n7z@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <332f5ffb.519605@news.sprynet.com> <5h51ma$b1u$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> <3337e3ad.1847437@news.sprynet.com> <5hbh2g$gah$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <333990e3.2587820@news.sprynet.com> <333EE698.41C67EA6@kzin.dorm.umd.edu> <3343cbbf.1091644@news.sprynet.com> <5i1216$gc4$1@news3.realtime.net> <33457087.6003026@news.sprynet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-78.wplus.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19910 comp.os.linux.misc:168427 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38633 Goatboy <lcappite@sprynet.com> wrote in article <33457087.6003026@news.sprynet.com>... [snip] > 2) MS has made computing easier. To install a prog in win95, u insert > the cd, and the install prog runs. With Linux, u switch to the cd, run > some make commands, puts various files in various dirs, edit lots of > config files written in greek, and on and on... Gee, which is easier? > Hey Goatboy, can you explain us what the hell Windoze does when it asking for CD-ROM just to *DISABLE DNS* ? Does it tries to write DNS stuff back to CD? Of cource, we must reboot then, and the same for everything. IMHO, if ever MS stealed networking form BSD, their guys must be completely stupid to damage it so much. Igor N Kovalenko