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From: Fredrik Olausson <fredrik@speechcraft.com>
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To: Stuart Duckworth <ITServices@cableinet.co.uk>
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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


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