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Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 16:13:17 -0600
From: Lorne Neudorf <lneudorf@common.net>
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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