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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.ci.com.au!brian.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!infeed1.internetmci.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!howland.erols.net!infeed2.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!masternews.telia.net!newsfeed3.telia.com!nexus!root From: root@no.spams.thank.you (root) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Free UNIX OS for Win32 PC Date: 17 Jul 97 03:09:28 GMT Organization: Nexus Networks Lines: 20 Message-ID: <33cd8ce8.0@d2o1.telia.com> References: <33CB85F7.D6637551@internetwis.com> <pk9vi2c75cf.fsf@btm0qt.se.bel.alcatel.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: d2o1.telia.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44546 comp.os.linux.misc:185198 Chris Gray (grayc@se.bel.alcatel.be) wrote: : In article <33CB85F7.D6637551@internetwis.com> AbrAxaS <abraxas@internetwis.com> writes: : I am currently running an Intel/Win32 PC with FAT16. Can someone : recommend a free UNIX style OS that will run on my system? I don't : really want to mess with the FAT, but creating a new partition for the : OS would not be a problem. Linux and FreeBSD seem to be options, but : maybe you have better ideas? Suggestions would be most welcome as I am : anxious to *experiment* with the UNIX OS. You can run Linux with the umdos filesystem that will work on top of your FAT disk. ____ ____ \ / Bjorn Lindgren / Nexus Network Security \ / __ \/___ nr@c64.org - root@nexus.pp.se - http://www.c64.org/~nr ___\/___ \ /\ / Feel free to send me letters and job offers :-) \ /\ / \/ \/ while [ 1 ];do cat /vmunix|mail billg@microsoft.com;done \/ \/ ...Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be very selective about who it decides to make friends with.