Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 02:11:56 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Paul <tribble@tribble.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD ROCKs! (was Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market!) Message-ID: <20010726021156.B5169@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20010725172455.A16707@tribble.net>; from tribble@tribble.net on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:24:55PM -0600 References: <013d01c114c1$394ee540$4500a8c0@nomad> <01072512092100.21676@hellraiser.cannoncreek.com> <20010725172455.A16707@tribble.net>
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The convincer for me was Wes Peters' 'Daemon's Advocate' article. He even personally responded to some of my questions. He pointed out that many of the same factors that make a good server, make a good workstation. The article was May 99, BTW. Anyway, that convinced me to give it a try, and I've never looked back. Is it as bleeding edge as Linux? No, but my Linux system became unmaintainable and incoherent very quickly. Interestingly, a problem with unmounting CDroms under Mandrake hosed my filesystem twice in a row, and that was it... I wanted the vaunted FreeBSD stability. That fast, async filesystem wasn't much good when I lost data. That's funny. I could have sworn only servers care about reliability and stability, not desktops.... jcm -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jonathon McKitrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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