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Date:      Wed, 08 Jan 1997 16:13:17 -0600
From:      Lorne Neudorf <lneudorf@common.net>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, mkiser@nortel.ca
Subject:   Re: Free BSD
Message-ID:  <32D41BFD.41DE@common.net>
References:  <854.852758694@time.cdrom.com>

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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > But, to be fair, there is a way to do this with Linux.  They have a system
> > which you can put all the system files on a DOS filesystem, then you
> > boot DOS and then you can run Linux from there.  If you decide you don't
> 
> Yes, it's called UMSDOS and it's so painfully slow that I'm sure
> many who try it come away with the mistaken impression that Linux
> is slower than a dog (it has a few perf problems, yes, but it's not
> THAT bad :-).
> 
> I'm not sure that this is a good thing.
> 
>                                                 Jordan

OK..Jordan...no problem.

I have an exisitng 500 megabyte hard drive that I can use to try out
FreeBSD to see if I like it!  Then I wont have to worry about anything
getting deleted on my computer :)

Thanks for your help!

Lorne Neudorf



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