following up a message from Steve Quarrella to Lawrence Garvin:

 SQ> Hello Lawrence.

 SQ> 16 May 03 07:47, you wrote to Russell Tiedt:

 LG> In fact, Russell, installing FreeBSD v4.x requires the installer to
 LG> know none of those things.

 SQ> How very interesting...I am just beginning to play with FreeBSD,
 SQ> and boy, am I going to have some questions for you. :-)  To my
 SQ> horror, what little I knew of SCO, going back over ten years, seems
 SQ> to evade me today, and I find myself flying by the seat of "It
 SQ> looks like DOS."  Yikes.



What I have here for FreeBSD is probably kinda dated,  but...

I'm wondering,  when would I want to go with something like this as opposed
to say,  sticking with the Slackware that I'm running on the other box and
am already fairly familiar with?  Or maybe when would I want to go with
some other flavor of *BSD,  or even some other unix?

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