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Subject: Re: FreeBSD. Should I buy or download?
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> Hi there,
>
>                                     Is it best to buy a boxed FreeBSD?
> or download it?
>
> Steven.
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Depends on your bandwidth, i stuffed the install a few times, so
downloading the ports collection a few times was really painful.