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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: "Matt" <Matt@stratdude.freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: I am confused. Please help. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Nov 1999 11:21:29 GMT."
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On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 11:21:29 GMT, "Matt" wrote:

> I had to make a decision between another Linux distro or
> FreeBSD. Since FBSD seemed pretty recent I went with that.  Thanks for
> the answers.

If you're familiar with Linux, then FreeBSD's ports mechanism can seem
inconvenient at first.  If this applies to you, keep in mind that you
can download updated packages and install them very much like RedHat
Linux's RPM's.  For the i386, you'd get them from

	ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-3-stable/

or a mirror near you. :-)

Package filenames always end in .tgz and are installed with the
pkd_add(1) command.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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