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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 22:33:27 -0600
From: Glenn Johnson <gljohnsn@iamerica.net>
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I know there are those out there on the bleeding edge who build the
FreeBSD system up from source code. Are there any advantages to a user
who is not doing development to build from source rather than install
prebuilt binaries? I guess that I am thinking mostly in terms of
performance benefits. If so, how much hard drive space would be needed?
Thanks in advance.

Glenn Johnson
gljohnsn@iamerica.net