OK, let's take this offline or outside, please: opinions like this 
are more appropriate to private email or -advocacy. I'm sure we 
could take down a reasonable sized mail server with our detailed 
dissections of failed OS installs, linux, *BSD, whathaveyou. But 
let's not and say we did.

Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Excerpt from Brian A. Seklecki:
> 
> 
>>First off, Linux doesn't contain any "avanced IP routing", in fact, Linux
>>is complete trash and you'd be crazy to re-install it.
>>
> 
> How do you say Linux is complete trash?  My experience with Linux, using
> Slackware, is much better than with NetBSD.  Linux seems more advanced than
> NetBSD especially for hardware support, while FreeBSD and OpenBSD seem less
> advanced.  I might want to buy a Fujitsu DynaMO 2.3 GB drive, whose disks have
> 2048 bytes sector size, read in an online how-to that the newer Linux kernels
> support this sector size.
> 
> I have yet to boot the new NetBSD 1.5.2 installation from the hard disk; closest
> I have come so far is the login prompt.  I type r (for root), and before I can 
> type more, the system responds with a bunch more r's and 
> "pckbc: command timeout", and it goes to a "Password" prompt, but is not
> recognizing anything from the keyboard any more, so all I can do is Reset.  I
> copied the install kernel from the CD when booted from the NetBSD CD, renaming
> the kernel to netbsdi.gz, easier to type than netbsd-INSTALL.gz, so when I get
> around to it, including backing up some user data, I can try to boot from the
> hard disk, and type wd0a:netbsdi.gz at the boot prompt (the last hope).  If that
> works, I can try to compile a custom kernel.  I may also try DOSBOOTing the
> generic kernel just to see if that's what's at fault.
> 
>