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- From: barker@eneli (Scott Barker)
- Subject: Re: linux
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 00:55:02 GMT
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- Damien P. Neil (dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu) wrote:
- > Linux is a free UNIX for 386/486 computers. Never having used any other PC
- > UNIX, I cannot tell how it compares to others, but I am very impressed by
- > it. You can FTP it from tsx-11.mit.edu, sunsite.unc.edu, or
- > wuarchive.wustl.edu. There are numerous other FTP sites, but I don't know
- > any of them offhand.
-
- > If you plan on installing Linux, I would highly recommend the SLS
- > distribution, which will give you a fairly complete base system including
- > many utilities and X/Windows.
-
- You really should check out comp.os.linux as well. There are several problems
- with Linux under different hardware configurations which you might want to
- check out. For one thing, it won't work with Maxtor hard drives (which is
- making a friend of mine quite upset lately).
-
- --
- Scott Barker
- barker@enel.ucalgary.ca
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