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- From: rab@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Richard Alan Brown)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Unix administration horror stories.
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 21:34:37 +1100
- Organization: School of Physics, University of Melbourne
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- References: <1992Nov9.184200.9733@newstand.syr.edu> <1dnu6lINNchh@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1992Nov12.172551.24575@phyrql.Alt.ZA>
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- In article <1992Nov12.172551.24575@phyrql.Alt.ZA> lucio@phyrql.Alt.ZA (Lucio de Re) writes:
- >pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) writes:
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- [stuff deleted]
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- >Almost true, 'cept if cash is a _real_ problem, one must keep in mind
- >that Minix will run floppy-based and neither Linux nor 386BSD will fit
- >comfortably in less than 80MBytes (that's an opinion, based on my
- >wanting at least 200MBytes disk before I try either out).
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- 200M???!!!!! pah, I run Linux quite happily in 65M including gcc
- and X. 200M is nice but nowhere near *necessary*.
- You can also run linux off a floppy, it's a good way to see if
- you like it, and from memory the SLS installation has a base setup
- filling 4 1.4M floppies.
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- I have used 386BSD machines, and the installation is bigger. Both are
- excellent IMHO, bit for me Linux is better on small systems.
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-
- alistair scott
- afs@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au
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