[olug] loss of FreeBSD virginity

[Maxwell Spangler]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, puzzled wrote:

>       I went to Walnut Creek and got the FBSD 4.0 distribution on CD for
> about $40. It took maybe 45 minutes to install and its not any more
> difficult than a redhat text install. Instead of having a single binary
> based installation method like many *nix distros BSD uses binary packages
> managed with pkg* tools and it has this thing called 'ports'.

Is that the boxed set with 10 CDROMs in it?  If it is, I wonder if you could
describe what else is in the box a bit more.

Also, do you know much about the difference between FreeBSD 4.0 and 4.1?  I'd
like to buy that boxed set and give FreeBSD a try, but I wonder if I'd be
better off starting with 4.1 instead of 4.0 in the same way you'd want to use
Redhat 6.2 instead of 6.1/6.0.. 

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