Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:13:40 +0200 (CEST) From: James <james@fr.clara.net> To: Fredrik Olausson <fredrik@speechcraft.com> Cc: Stuart Duckworth <ITServices@cableinet.co.uk>, Dragon Singer <WM-Scace@wiu.edu>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hello, Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105281113040.21110-100000@munster.noc.fr.clara.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105271209060.148-100000@molly.telia.com>
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Debian is not bad either for laptops...It has always found any NIC's I have had... James On Sun, 27 May 2001, Fredrik Olausson wrote: > > On Sun, 27 May 2001, Stuart Duckworth wrote: > > > On 25 May 01, at 17:23, Dragon Singer wrote: > > > > > I'm really new to FreeBSD, so new in fact that I haven't had the courage > > > to try and install it yet. > > > > I tried installing Linux after several successfull FreeBSD installs. I > > found FreeBSD easier and safer to install. The Linux distribution I > > tried was RedHat and despite me clearly not wanting it to write to > > my primary drive, it did so anyway and trashed the partition table. I > > shall stick with FreeBSD in future. > > RedHat is difficult, since it tries to be so simple :) I use Slackware a > lot on my laptop systems since I haven't been able to get FreeBSD to > install on any of them due to PCMCIA NICs and cdroms. Slackware is a great > distribution if you know what you're doing. While it isn't as good as > FreeBSD (in my opinion) it certainly is miles better than, for example, > RedHat and SuSE. > > -Fredrik > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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