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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:18

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On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 06:35:54 -0700
Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:40:30 -0700
> > Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
> > 
> >>> Whereas my old PC (about five years old now) works fine and has
> >>> fully up to date software (OS and applications) that also works fine
> >>> and does the right thing with 30 year old data files (my oldest) as
> >>> well as ones from today. I've had a consistent UI of my choice for
> >>> over twenty years now.
> >> 
> >> Obviously not windows, then.
> > 
> > 	Nope FreeBSD, but I could do the same with OpenBSD, NetBSD,
> > DragonFlyBSD and any number of Linux distributions (probably with
> > somewhatn more effort than any of the BSDs).
> > 
> 
> Depends on your choice of UI. Most major  Linux distros come in versions
> for each of the popular UIs.

	Yeah mine is rather less popular, but I have had it running under
Linux and some distros have it packaged.

> I use Mate, but Mint seems popular, and  you
> can get Gnome, etc. If you don't like the prebuilt distros  it's fairly
> easy to install one of the (perhaps) second-tier UIs in popularity. If you
> want to go further down the list you may have to compile it yourself. Of
> course you probably knew this.

	Really the main effort with Linux distros tends to be around
updates (especially major version bumps) which with FreeBSD are pretty much
effortless.

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