Hi Paul,
I have been using the suse linux distribution mostly without problems so we
will probably consider sticking with it,
cheers,
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Donnerstag, 16. November 2000 19:27
Subject: Re: freebsd versus linux
>I'd agree with the above. However having more Linux than FreeBSD
>experience I had to build some FreeBSD and RH7 kernels recently and the
>former was a lot less painful. RH7 seemed to be missing an assembler to
>begin with so the kernel wouldn't compile at all (as86?)! I could only
>find it in a RH6.2 rpm. Maybe I'm using the wrong distribution thesedays.
>
>If you've used a few different flavours then the transition to FreeBSD
>is pretty painless. Unless you want to use Java.
>
>my 2p
>
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