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class=765191603-08072002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>With such a
familiar sounding praise of *bsd i think i must add my 2cents.
:)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=765191603-08072002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Sick
of redhat/debian moving your config files? Sick of having to run some
ridiculously buggy tool to setup that network card? Sick of weekly security
patches just to keep your firewall you</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=765191603-08072002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>r's (ie not
0wned)?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=765191603-08072002><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=765191603-08072002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Then
OpenBSD is your saviour! :)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=765191603-08072002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>heh,
IMO it is the easiest, quickest and safest *nix on the planet. Damn i
can get a box up and running from scratch in seriously under 10 mins.
The only hard part with the whole thing is learning vi.
[grin]</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=765191603-08072002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Open
may not be known as an easy bsd but, just like Free it's documentation is
brilliant, once you just understand a little of its workings i gurantee you'll
find it good.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=765191603-08072002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>ps.
this is not a poke at freebsd (another brilliant system), i just felt like
typing.. :)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>---<BR>Martin Laukkanen (random@sectoid.org) </FONT></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Matt Pearce
[mailto:mattpearce@optushome.com.au] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, 8 July 2002
12:27 PM<BR><B>To:</B> melbourne wireless<BR><B>Subject:</B> [MLB-WIRELESS]
*nix system for begginers<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi All,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just thought I would put this recommendation out
for all of you have are playing with wireless gear and want to setup a *nix
(Linux, Unix etc) based os. I would have to personally recommend
FreeBSD. I had been playing unsuccessfully with Red Hat for about a year
+ now with nothing really to show for it. And after a recommendation
from Andrew Dean(user on the MW list) I had a look at FreeBSD. From
there it was mostly downhill. You can set it up relativly easy and there
is full documentation on the basics that you can download, and by full
documentation I mean it is the electronic version of the manual they sell in
shops worth about $80 and its free online.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There is also a guide on how to setup wireless
cards in an AP (they use onrinocco's for the example) which is rather
straight forward. I have even found that compiling the Kernel is very
easy and the syntax is fairly clear for the commands.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It has X-Windows in it but I havnt touched it and
thus cant make any recommendations about it. Below are a few links that
people might find helpful</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>FreeBSD Web Site:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.freebsd.org">www.freebsd.org</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good Austalian Download Site: (I can get
700kB/sec from here with optus cable :-) )</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/">http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The FreeBSD Handbook</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html">http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>AP Setup Guide</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7121/sam0205a/sam0205a.htm">http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7121/sam0205a/sam0205a.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hope this helps someone out there and if you need
any help email me and I will see what I can do</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Matt.</FONT></DIV>
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