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On 3 Sep 2008, at 4:58 PM, Guido Falsi wrote:

> Also, FreeBSD is still a little download compared to other systems.  
> I would not like to download a multiGB distribution when what I need  
> is just base system + sources, to build everything up from there.

I do not want to download a big multi GB distro either.

If you however could see how much cool stuff Ubuntu has in their  
single CD, you would be very impressed.  (See my earlier mail.)

We can do much better.

Dan

PS - back in the BSD 4.0-5.0 timeframe rc.conf got setup by the  
installer for you so that you could get X up and going without much  
hassle at all.