From: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 06:48:00 UTC 0000
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Subject: Re: I love GDB

Reply to message 5533328    from UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROC on 02/27/96 11:06PM

> It's not too bad a price, but you can get the same things for free over the
> net (although you might prefer the CDROM if you don't have a fast
> connection...)  No distribution contains the latest versions of everything,
> but if you get a recent distribution (I recommend Red Hat 2.1, or 2.2
> whenever it's released, but I think Slackware 3.0's good too) you'll get
> fairly new versions of programs.  You can always hit the FTP sites for
> newer versions of software.

Yeah, that's my problem.  Right now the best reliable connection I can get is
9600, and at that rate, it takes hours to download anything useful.  FYI, it
was the Slackware version that I saw.

Anybody know anything about a program called FreeBSD?  VA Tech supposedly
requires it for all their computer science students, and I have heard that it
is really crappy.  Can you folks give me any hints, especially about what kind
of C facilities it has?

Thanks,
John