Our December meeting is on FreeBSD, given by Pat Wade. Might ask around
after that.
"Staley W. Mims, III" wrote:
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> Woody Mims - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 541/684-0974
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> "All energy flows according to the whim of the Great Magnet"
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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> Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Anyone???
> Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 09:32:46 -0800
> From: "Staley W. Mims, III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> References: <3A0332BC.547.1AA6D31E@localhost>
>
> 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:
> >
> > 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
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