From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 4 10:57:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCA0B37B407 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:57:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rootpromptb ([24.21.92.93]) by femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010904175737.VUAN5652.femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com@rootpromptb> for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:57:37 -0700 Message-ID: <001201c1356b$155a3250$4401a8c0@rootpromptb> From: "Joseph Grundy" To: References: <000701c1345d$29e5bf50$9e80accf@shavedham><18310686608.20010903223748@telus.net> Subject: Re: i took FBSD's stability for granted. Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:57:37 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a few Linux box's running. I think a great deal is how its set up. You can really take the time and care to put the machine together and OS, the pay off will be great. Not all OS's but alot can run stable. or at least seem that way, my e-smith gateway server has been up for weeks with no reboot, and runs like a dream. build on redhats distro with specifics for gateway. > like sean, as a recent convert to FreeBSD I have no complaints. but > as you can tell > by the three boxes I have running linux, it *seems* stable... ;-) YMMV > > yellow dog linux on an older powermac... > [jim@macpenguin jim]$ uptime > 2:13pm up 249 days, 19:42, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > These two boxes run RH 2.0.36 ... > 1:13pm up 230 days, 19:21, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > 1:18pm up 241 days, 23:42, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > but it does seem that RH seems to be bloating things. > Slackware was the last Linux I used for an extended period and it > was the purest of the Linux distos that I used. > > cheers, > jim > > > > > >Hello, > > > >Monday, September 03, 2001, 2:45:19 AM, you wrote: > > > >> I now realize I took a lot for granted when i used FreeBsd. I > >>tried Rehat linux and > >> right from the start i'm getting "segmentation error - core dump" > >>errors. Who cares why. > >> The point is, After two years FBSD has never hicupped, crashed - > >>done anything except > >> what it was supposed to do. > > > >[2241][sellis@wintermute:~]$ uname -r > >2.2.16 > >[2241][sellis@wintermute:~]$ uptime > > 10:41pm up 290 days, 8:23, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.04, 0.01 > >[2241][sellis@wintermute:~]$ > > > > > >*cough* > > > >The slackware I've been using has worked all right. > > > >I am very happy about what I see with the freebsd, though. It's very > >good to be on board, > > > >-- > >Best regards, > > Sean mailto:sellis@telus.net > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message