Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 10:06:40 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Keith Stevenson <k.stevenson@louisville.edu>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart Message-ID: <36DC8B20.A60848E7@newsguy.com> References: <4.1.19990302095928.00b3d4c0@localhost> <4.1.19990302092127.03ff9da0@localhost> <99Mar2.114516est.113920@pandora.isinet.com> <4.1.19990302095928.00b3d4c0@localhost> <19990302125540.A28002@homer.louisville.edu> <4.1.19990302130844.00ca3740@localhost> <19990302183017.A15210@stumpy.dannyland.org>
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dannyman wrote: > > I'd expect most sane people would sooner buy the CD than do a modum install. > ;) There are only -RELEASE and occasional current snapshots available for sale. If you want to go directly to -current, or directly to -stable, or if you leave someplace where cd-roms can take months to arrive from the US with no local alternative (and there are a LOT of places like that), or if you just can't wait to get FreeBSD installed (like me when I came back to work on the loader :), a modem install beats the crap out of a CD install. :-) So what, if it takes a few hours to do a full install (including sources)? Flat fees are common, so it is not going to cost you anything more, and you can always leave it installed while you go out/sleep/whatever. An FTP install by modem is not insane by any means at all. Perhaps your judgment might be skewed by easy availability (and fast delivery) of the cds? That's not so common around the world... -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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