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Date:      Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:12:05 +0200
From:      "Denis J. Cirulis" <monster@okb.lv>
To:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: About Unix
Message-ID:  <20010308131205.A1029@okb.lv>
In-Reply-To: <022801c0a7c0$024f8860$847e03cb@apana.org.au>; from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:07:45PM %2B1000
References:  <OFA420CC63.6AEAEDB6-ON87256A08.006994B1@smed.com> <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <20010308115639.A4298@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> <022801c0a7c0$024f8860$847e03cb@apana.org.au>

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On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:07:45PM +1000, Doug Young wrote:
dougy> Try the following on both a linux & a BSD system
dougy> 
dougy> setup two identical systems,one with linux & other with BSD
dougy> 
dougy> give them both a few jobs to do, then hit the "reset" button 
dougy> (you do have power failures in Sweden don't you ??)
dougy> 
dougy> invariably the BSD system will recover with no damage but
dougy> the linux one will need a total re-install
dougy> 
dougy> We did have exclusively linux in our servers but since the changeover to 
dougy> FreeBSD the uptimes have increased to the point where machines
dougy> generally keep going constantly from one upgrade til the next ... usually
dougy> a year or so later. The Redhat / Slackware / Debian systems rarely went
dougy> for a month before something or other broke. We do have the odd Win2000
dougy> Server system (required for certain software applications) & their uptime
dougy> is generally superior to linux ..... no comparison with BSD though.

I don't want to claim BSD or Linux, I must say I'm using both BSD
and Linux about 5 years. 

You're wrong about power failures: first you can switch to
ReiserFS and after power failure you wouldn't be asked to do
fsck. Journaling FS rocks, but I haven't seen any for FreeBSD.

One I must say that *BSD under heavy load are more powerfull.
-- 
Just GNU it.

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