On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Yuri Korob wrote: > > --- Benjamin Vander Jagt <benjaminvanderjagt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > FreeBSD took a long time to install, and it's hardware support was > > pretty old. Installing drivers really wasn't very hard, and it > > seemed > > to perform faster than any other OS I've used, but I really didn't > > use > > it that long, since I had already fallen in love with Red Hat. > > Last week I had to install FreeBSD 4.8 on a newest Dell laptop since > RHAT 9 would not. Installation took 7 minutes and everything works > just fine. I had that problem with RH9 and Latitude with DVD reader, but it seems to work fine with CD-ROM, hard disk, NFS, or FTP install, and it's been great ever since (particularly with Mike Harris's Rawhide XFree86 installed. > > All this evidence is anecdotal at best, and serves nothing but > feeding newbies with FUD. There are areas where each OS shines. Yep, cuts both ways. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
