Re: Which BSD?
From: David Lord (snews_at_lordynet.demon.co.uk)
Date: 11/12/03
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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:34:06 +0000 (GMT)
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the.wizard@gte.net "the.wizard" wrote:
> Uwe Dippel wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 01:49:45 +0800, X-Istence wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Get three computers, and install em all !!!!!!
> >
> >
> > Four, you mean !? - One for each of the three BSDs and one for VMWare ...
>
> As a matter of fact, I have more computers laying around than many small
> businesses - the sad result of a hobby gone wild... anyone want to buy an
> internet ready Compaq 200 in Southern Califonnia?
> On my list of things to do is to have a Microsoft-free setup-- networking
> FreeBSD, netBSD, Debian and Slackware systems.
> OS/2 Warp would be interesting as would BeOS, but I haven't been able to lay
> hands on a copy. The last OS/2 I bought was Warp 3.
> By way of history I was an engineer, Unix systems analyst/administrator and
> programmer before retirement/disability but became a dinosaur by a failure to
> make the "objects paradym" switch.
> I installed and ran Yggdrasil, until a power failure scrambeled the fs.
> Later I ran Red Hat 6.2, until one of their techies told me my XXX weeks
> support certificate was worthless for an obsolete version and I should buy a
> "Current Boxed Version".
> In the past I've bought Mandrake, Suse, FreeBSD, and a commercial Debian.
>
> L8r,
> Jerry D. Dinosaur
>
>
You might be interested in the following OS/2 related links.
http://xenia.sote.hu/~kadzsol/rexx/sajat/updcd.htm
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,361957,00.asp
You can upgrade from Warp3 using 'updatecd' and this gives support
for lots of modern hardware but not without some problems, as you
might expect.
David
-- David Lord - david@lordynet.demon.co.uk
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