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Date:      Thu, 8 Mar 2001 20:18:31 +1000
From:      "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
To:        "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com>, "Heiko Recktenwald" <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Cc:        "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: About Unix
Message-ID:  <021301c0a7b9$228984c0$847e03cb@apana.org.au>
References:  <01b401c0a7a6$3927e720$847e03cb@apana.org.au>; from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 06:03:10PM %2B1000 <OFA420CC63.6AEAEDB6-ON87256A08.006994B1@smed.com> <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <00f901c0a794$0b2a64e0$847

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> Well, Linux vs. FreeBSD. I dont have much experiences with Linux. I
> installed some readhat some days ago, with KDE etc, on FBSD I have just
> twm. IMHO FBSD is much easier for a primitiv mind like mine.

No disagreement there .... at least some of the FreeBSD documentation is
intelligible

> What convinced me that FBSD is "better" was PicoBSD. Maybe there are
better
> one floppy Linux systems than what I tried, but PicoBSD was a real thing.

Its a vast improvement on that linuxrouter disaster :)
>
> My first Unix was Minix on a 1 or 2 MB partition on a 286...20MB
harddrive.
> And a floppy on a XT. Just to get the look and feel of Unix.

I was looking for a copy of Minix some time back .... don't suppose you
still have the
original floppies or copies thereof ??



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