[buug] Hello, I'm new.

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Bonkers the Evil Admin (Matt Bockman) (bonkers at thetechbox.com):

> Wow... I like this mailing list. Well, would you think that BSD would be 
> better then a Linux system for my circumstances? 

(1) _Mu._  http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/mu.html

(2) Why don't you get a pile of CD-ROMs of various *BSD and Linux
systems that might be of interest, and try them out, one at a time, to
see which one you like best?

If you come to the Linux Picnic this coming Saturday, I'll be running an
installfest.  Among the things I'll bring along will be these CD sets
(quoting http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/installfest/#distros):

    * Apple Darwin (BSD) v. 1.4.1 for i386, v. 1.3.1 for PPC
    * Borland Kylix Open Edition 2.0 for i386
    * Conectiva Linux 8.0 (4 disks) for i386
    * Corel Linux 1.2 AKA "second edition" for i386
    * Corel WordPerfect 8.0 Download Personal Edition for i386 Linux
    * CRUX 0.9.3 for i386
    * Debian Official "woody" 3.0r0 for i386 (7 disks)
    * Debian "woody" 3.0 w/Progeny Graphical Installer for i386
    * Debian Official "potato" 2.2r3 for PPC (1 disk) and SPARC (3 disks)
    * Debian Official "woody" 3.0r0 for DEC Alpha (7 disks)
    * Debian Unofficial "woody" pre-3.0 2001-12-27 netinst for i386 and PPC
    * DemoLinux 3.0 for i386
    * EasyLinux 1.2 for i386 (2 disks)
    * FreeBSD 4.6.1rc2 "stable" for i386
    * FreeBSD 5.0 "current" 2001-08 snapshot (6 disks) for i386
    * Gentoo Linux 1.2 for i686
    * Knoppix 3.1 for i386
    * Libranet 2.0 "essentials disk" for i386
    * Linuxcare Bootable Toolbox 2.0 for i386
    * Linux-Mandrake 8.2 (3 disks) for i586
    * LinuxPPC "2000 / MacWorld CD" for PPC
    * LNX-BBC 1.618 for i386
    * Lunar Linux 20020503 for i386
    * Lycoris Desktop/LX build 44 (3 disks) for i386
    * MkLinux pre-R1 (2nd image) for PPC
    * Microsoft NetShow 2.00 build 2.51 for i386 Linux
    * NetBSD 1.5.2 for alpha, i386, macppc, pmax, sparc, vax, sparc64, sun3.
    * NetBSD 1.5.2 for amiga, arc, arm32, atari, cobalt, hp300, hpcmips,
      mac68k, mvme68k, news68k, next68k, pc532
    * OpenBSD 3.0 (3 disks) for i386
    * OpenOffice.org 1.0.0 for i386 Linux and pre-6.0 alpha build 641c
      for PPC Linux
    * Progeny 1.0 (2 disks) for i386
    * Red Hat 7.3 (3 disks) and 7.1 & 7.2 (2 disks each) for i386
    * Simply GNUStep Stage 2 pre1 for i386
    * Slackware 8.1 for i386
    * Stampede Linux 0.90 beta "happy valley" for i586
    * Storm Linux 2.0.6 for i386
    * Sorcerer GNU Linux 2002-05-17 for i386
    * Source Mage 20020323 and 20020527beta for i386
    * Sun Star Office 5.2 for i386 Linux
    * SuSE Linux "evaluation" 7.0 for i386, 6.3 for PPC
    * SuSE Linux "live evaluation" (demo disk) 8.0 for i386
    * Turbo Linux Server 8.0 "viper" (2 disks) for i386
    * Turbo Linux Workstation (English) 6.1 for i386
    * Vermillion 7.1.1 (2 disks) and 6.2.4 for i386
    * Yellow Dog 2.3 for PPC 

I'll even have a CDR burner.  Be sure to bring lots of blanks.

(If the above seems a little cranky, then understand that coming onto a
mailing list full of a mixed *BSD / Linux / proprietary-Unix users and
asking "What's the best Unix?" is difficult to distinguish from posting
flamebait.)

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