Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:49:55 +0100 From: Tommy Hallgren <md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Cheapbytes Message-ID: <34755943.41C67EA6@mdstud.chalmers.se>
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Hi! Cheapbytes sells FreeBSD for $4.99, quite a nice price. They have tweaked the distribution a bit to make it fit on one CD. However, reading their page about FreeBSD isn't exacly exciting to say the least. This is what they write: How difficult is FreeBSD to install? It can be a bit of a rough road and can in some instances require some patience. We installed it on a few different machines during our testing and had to use a variety of techniques to install the software. One machine needed to have cache turned off. For another we had to copy the files to a DOS partition and install from there. All installed with persistence. Their experience of installing FreeBSD doesn't sound very succesful. I would say they almost hurt the community. If you had to choose between, say one of the better Linux distributions, and FreeBSD, would you really choose FreeBSD then? My opinion is that FreeBSD has the slickest install of'em all, and that they don't know what they are doing or have faulty hardware. regards, Tommy(md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se)
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