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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 11:51:07 -0700
From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
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To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>,
	"Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>,
	Peter Schwenk <schwenk@math.udel.edu>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Some Observations
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> Jordan K. Hubbard reported:
> >
> > We do have an option to do that from the installer now. :)
> 
> Thats nice. I haven't tried installing since 3.1, I just update
> it with cvsup.

I was pleasantly surprised to find it.  I'm thinking maybe I should help
test the "Release Candidates" a bit more so I can find MORE pleasant
surprises.  ;^)

> Anyway, FreeBSD and OpenBSD seem to be catching on among the
> "academic" types: when I first got into FreeBSD almost nobody
> here seemed to have heard of it. Now there are a quite a few
> users at my end, though neither is close to linux right now. And
> in many places linux still isn't close to windows, unfortunately,
> but it's picking up.

Yeah, that's the good news, we're all still growing.

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
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