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Old 04-24-2001, 08:26 PM   #1
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Anyone here use freebsd or familiar with it? i am buying it tomorrow and am going to do an install over linux...would like to know the idiosyncracies of it...
 
Old 04-25-2001, 05:48 AM   #2
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Actually I was looking forward to installing that in the next month or so as well. I have heard only good out of it.
 
Old 04-25-2001, 03:53 PM   #3
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I have not heard anything bad about FreeBSD either. And I believe it can run most Linux software.

However, I am in distress. Are you actually deleting Linux and replaceing it with FreeBSD? Shame, shame.
 
Old 04-25-2001, 05:58 PM   #4
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To be honest I think FreeBSD is really a well kept secret. Some of the biggest installs around run FreeBSD yet it remains relatively unknown.
 
Old 04-27-2001, 01:46 PM   #5
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I bought it...

Guess i bit off more than i could chew. Is it me or does the computer you update with the newest kernal just slow down more and more? anyways...

im going to have to tinker with this freebsd a little more to get the gist of it...im a slow learner, what can i say?

i bought the newest suse offering...Proffesional 7.1 with the 2.4 kernal and, man, it slowed my system to a grinding and annoying speed. I have a 166mhz(it was way overclocked when i bought it...the dude that sold it to me never mentioned that) with 64megs of RAM...is my system just getting too old for these new and improved kernals?
 
Old 05-04-2001, 07:26 PM   #6
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Computer too slow?! I have a P200 with only 32MB RAM runnin Slackware!
 
  


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