From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 2:18: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D1AB37B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 02:17:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA20847; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 20:17:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "roadrunner" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdU20845; Thu Mar 8 20:17:39 2001 Message-ID: <021301c0a7b9$228984c0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Victor R. Cardona" , "Heiko Recktenwald" Cc: "Victor R. Cardona" , References: <01b401c0a7a6$3927e720$847e03cb@apana.org.au>; from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 06:03:10PM +1000 <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <00f901c0a794$0b2a64e0$847 Subject: Re: About Unix Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 20:18:31 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message