From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 28 2:59: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from filer.fr.clara.net (filer.fr.clara.net [212.43.194.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4EA37B424 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 02:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@fr.clara.net) Received: from munster.noc.fr.clara.net (munster.noc.fr.clara.net [212.43.195.20]) by filer.fr.clara.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B644934E6; Mon, 28 May 2001 11:58:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:58:39 +0200 (CEST) From: James X-Sender: james@munster.noc.fr.clara.net To: Fredrik Olausson Cc: Stuart Duckworth , Dragon Singer , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hello, In-Reply-To: <001f01c0e75b$979071c0$0e0101c0@CTHULHU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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