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- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.005527.1339@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:55:27 GMT
- References: <1992Nov3.232025.14287@slate.mines.colorado.edu> <1992Nov6.134154.7257@global.hacktic.nl> <BxEB33.372@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Nov8.215719.8888@colorado.edu>
- Organization: Global Village 1
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- drew@ladymacb.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
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- >>>want). Installing UNIX is simple? Forget it!
-
- >The last commercial Unix I installed from scratch, I stuck the CDROM in
- >the drive,booted it, answered a few questions about what licenses I had
- >and what products I wanted installed, and it told me to come back in X minutes.
-
- Nice! I've always installed either from floppy or from tape. The last being
- NCR System V.4. Almost every package installed needs manual intervention. And
- endless recompilation of the kernel is a real pain in the *ss too.
-
- >Under Linux, you boot one of the "easy to install" disk sets, answer a few
- >questions regarding where you want it and what you want installed (ie, X,
- >etc) and it just happens.
-
- I know, it's easy after partitioning the harddisk...
-
- >>Just buy a machine with pre-installed UNIX. Or ask the shop to install it
- >>for you. Is that difficult ?
- >Most workstation vendors will ship with the OS already installed, just as
- >most PC vendors ship with DOS / Windows installed.
-
- That's nice! Except when your vendor ships the wrong operating system. That is,
- DOS...
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