From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 9:22:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD7737B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:22:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vcardona@home.com) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010308172230.WOIA616.femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com@marx.marvic.chum>; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:22:30 -0800 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id f28HNfr09053; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:23:41 -0600 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:23:41 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: Doug Young Cc: Jesper Holmberg , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About Unix Message-ID: <20010308112341.E8865@marx.marvic.chum> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Young , Jesper Holmberg , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <20010308115639.A4298@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> <022801c0a7c0$024f8860$847e03cb@apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <022801c0a7c0$024f8860$847e03cb@apana.org.au>; from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:07:45PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:07:45PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > invariably the BSD system will recover with no damage but > the linux one will need a total re-install He might have to hit the reset a couple of times. I have blackouts here, and my two Linux boxes have never required a reinstall because of it. I know I have been lucky. - v -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message