Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:58:39 +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.4.21.0105281151580.21110-100000@munster.noc.fr.clara.net> In-Reply-To: <001f01c0e75b$979071c0$0e0101c0@CTHULHU>
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The Packages can be a pain in the *rse...although sticking with stable has rarely caused problems...One thing I still haven't got to grips with on FreeBSD is an upgrade, (4.2 to 4.3 for example) To be honest I haven't needed to attempt it yet but it looks horrible ! :-) On Mon, 28 May 2001, Fredrik Olausson wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Debian is not bad either for laptops...It has always found any > > NIC's I have had... > > I like Debian, or I did until I broke the packaging stuff. Again, I feel > that's the beauty of FreeBSD and Slackware; there is no need to worry about > corrupting some database somewhere, if you don't like the program, just go > ahead and delete it. But wait, lets not start a Linux distribution war on a > FreeBSD mailing list :) > > -Fredrik > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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