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Date:      Tue, 11 May 2004 21:13:34 +0100
From:      arden <arden@nildram.co.uk>
To:        wendy <uberdoift@sympatico.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re:
Message-ID:  <1084306414.2459.7.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <000501c43770$082b8070$6700a8c0@aopen>
References:  <000501c43770$082b8070$6700a8c0@aopen>

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On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 16:52, wendy wrote:
> Easy to install
> FreeBSD can be installed from a variety of media including CD-ROM, DVD-ROM,
> floppy disk, magnetic tape, an MS-DOSĀ® partition, or if you have a network
> connection, you can install it directly over anonymous FTP or NFS. All you
> need is a couple of formatted 1.44MB floppies and these directions.
> 
> 
> 
> THIS IS NOT TRUE! - the installation actually is very difficult and so this
> "Superior" OS is not for 99.9% computer users - I'll probably kill my time
> only if I lost my job and stay home having nothing to do to configure how to
> install it.
> 
> Comparing to Windows, this BSD is very dumb- want to me to tell it
> everything. No wonder it's Free.

I have to disagree ive installed it today for the first time on test
machine and apart from having slight problems with sound driver (which
m$ windoze did not auto configure either) didn't have much trouble 

looks to be pretty solid have to say boot up and shutdown seem alot
quicker than linux 

arden  
> 
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