25 Feb
2003
25 Feb
'03
12:50 p.m.
Well, here's my OT post for the month.
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, Philip Pemberton wrote:
I'll try FreeBSD when I've got a spare few
hours to download the ISO
image.
You might find it easier to install by FTP. It's simple: download two floppy
disk images, dd 'em to some 3.5s, and reboot. Then install as normal, except
choose FTP as the install media. It isn't lightning-fast, but you also only
download the data that you need instead of an entire ISO.
ObClassicCmp: FreeBSD makes a great OS for running classic computing tools
like SIMH.
Slackware is quite stable, probably because Slackware
have a "We're not
going to hack the Kernel, nor are we going to use any fancy packaging
systems or init scripts".
I've heard many people say that Slackware is the most BSD-like of the
Linuces. Of course, that was on Slashdot, so it must be true.
--
Jeffrey Sharp