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Woody Mims - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 541/684-0974
"All energy flows according to the whim of the Great Magnet"
- Hunter S. Thompson
Hi all --
I'll soon be working with FreeBSD at work, and am thinking hard about
installing it at home to study and learn it. I was very impressed with
the range of ported software available for FreeBSD and that it has
native Linux binary compatibility. It is supported by BSDi which just
merged with Walnut Creek which also strongly supports Slackware Linux.
There is a very good reference - The FreeBSD Handbook - that is down-
loadable in several formats, including pdf, or browsable online.
The installation program has a similar look and feel to it to the Slack-
ware installation (which I for one relly like) after a nifty little
hardware conflict resolution interactive display.
I've been toying with the idea of a once a month FreeBSD users sub-group
meeting of EUGLUG (Eugene UNIX-GNU/LInux Users Group). Any one
interested
in dialoging with me to explore this idea?
Woody
Dennis Soper wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I built my daughter a FreeBSD box as requested, for her birthday.
> Used 4.1.1. This thing is a Pentium 133, 64MB RAM, with a funky
> old Trio 64 S3 video card with 2MB onboard; it's positively snappy
> running Gnome and Netscape. Plus, the ports collection and the
> BSD CVS stuff is way too cool. Oh, and did I mention, integrated
> cryptography?
>
> Kinda makes me think about nuking the linux partition on my
> workstation's hard drive-- I'm impressed.
>
> (Flameproof suit on)
>
> Cheers,
> Dennis
> "Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language."
> --Noel Godin
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Woody Mims - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 541/684-0974
"All energy flows according to the whim of the Great Magnet"
- Hunter S. Thompson
