From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 22 17: 1:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E54710FFD for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:01:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from celeris (56k-port4002.ime.net [209.90.195.12]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.3/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id UAA39915; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:01:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.19990222195914.03df0f10@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:00:40 -0500 To: Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: San Jose Mercury News In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990222134234.0400ce70@mail.lariat.org> References: <19990222144214.B25682@netmonger.net> <000301be5e61$32179ec0$6a6c4cd1@jackv.pacbell.net> <000301be5e61$32179ec0$6a6c4cd1@jackv.pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:44 PM 2/22/99 , Brett Glass wrote: >At 02:42 PM 2/22/99 -0500, Christopher Masto wrote: > >>Does it ever occur to these reporters that Linux's success just might >>have something to do with the fact that Microsoft products simply do >>not work, and Linux does? > >If it were merely that, then FreeBSD would be equally successful -- >more successful, in fact, as it it smore reliable. Timing, PR, and >advocacy (though done largely by fanatics) allowed Linux to gain a >foothold and eclipse the technologically superior BSD derivatives. One of the MAJOR attractive items of Linux is that it can run for months and years without a reboot.. My NT machine needs a good boot rather often, but not as much as my Win95 machine, which can run less than a day on the boot.. Stability is everything.. Noone can access network services if the machine is always being rebooted, and it takes 5-20 minutes to do it at that. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP DSS/1024 Public Key ID: 0x409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message