[GLLUG] your favorite softwares, and distros

[Matt Graham]

On Thursday 27 February 2003 14:50, after a long battle with technology, 
Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Daniel <drk@netophilia.net> writes:
> > Does it need to be linux?
> > If not, I recommend running a BSD, FreeBSD being the easiest to
> > get going. Try out version 4.7, since 5.0 was just released and
> > probably has more bugs.
>
> You're recommending a BSD on a Linux users group mailing list?
> That seems antisocial at best.

Eh, there are *BSD users here too.

I would disagree on *BSD being easier to install than a modern Linux 
distro; the *BSD team has gone for a total bare-bones, text-only, 
expert-oriented approach in their installer that mimics what you found 
in a Linux distro in 1998-1999.  I haven't installed a *BSD in over a 
year, things might have changed.  As far as hardware support goes, it's 
six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.

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