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[Daniel]

I agree. This is a *NIX users group per popular decree, but I was not saying it was easier to install than linux, just that FreeBSD was the easiest BSD to install, and that BSD as a whole is much better than linux IMHO


Matt Graham extolled:
> 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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