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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:12:48 -0800 (PST)
From:      "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat
Message-ID:  <20020123091107.T32624-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr>

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

> My point was, people keep asking the question "Is there a BSD-like
> linux distribution?" and the answer always is "Try Slackware".  Which
> doesn't make much sense to me.  The best argument seems to be "The
> BSDs have a reputation of being minimalistic and user-unfriendly;
> Slackware is minimalistic and user-unfriendly; therefore Slackware is
> like the BSDs."

of course, the only BSD i've found to be particulary user-unfriendly is
netbsd. and that, it seems, is a problem with disk partitioning during the
install. something that probably could be fixed fairly easily given
motivation by the NetBSD team.

-- jan

-------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+
  http://caustic.org/~jan                      jan@caustic.org
    "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse
         of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche


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