Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 21:07:45 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Jesper Holmberg" <jeho5791@student.uu.se>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: About Unix Message-ID: <022801c0a7c0$024f8860$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <OFA420CC63.6AEAEDB6-ON87256A08.006994B1@smed.com> <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <20010308115639.A4298@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr>
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Try the following on both a linux & a BSD system setup two identical systems,one with linux & other with BSD give them both a few jobs to do, then hit the "reset" button (you do have power failures in Sweden don't you ??) invariably the BSD system will recover with no damage but the linux one will need a total re-install We did have exclusively linux in our servers but since the changeover to FreeBSD the uptimes have increased to the point where machines generally keep going constantly from one upgrade til the next ... usually a year or so later. The Redhat / Slackware / Debian systems rarely went for a month before something or other broke. We do have the odd Win2000 Server system (required for certain software applications) & their uptime is generally superior to linux ..... no comparison with BSD though. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesper Holmberg" <jeho5791@student.uu.se> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 8:56 PM Subject: Re: About Unix > > Let me take the opportunity to jump into this Linux-bashing thread, > and ask a related question. > > I am a long time Linux user who have for quite a while been aware of > the *BSDs, planning to try it out. Since a couple of weeks, I've > had FreeBSD installed on an extra machine. > > No bad experiences so far. A lot of reading had to be done, but that > was expected. But to sum up my experience somewhat naively, I would > say: this is like Linux, just a lot of small differences. > > So my question to you would be: can you tell my just why I should hang > in there? Why do you prefer FreeBSD? What will I discover if I stay > that is not obvious at first sight? > > I know this could be regarded as flame-bait, but since this > Linux-bashing was already started, I was thinking I could perhaps jump > in and ask that the discussion be steered towards some information for > us FreeBSD-newbies. > > Best, > > Jesper > > -- > "But how can one be warm alone?" > > Jesper Holmberg jeho5791@student.uu.se > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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