From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 10:51:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from felch.internot (b001-m004-p015.acld.clear.net.nz [203.97.54.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 424E337B727 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:51:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamiew@clear.net.nz) Received: from clear.net.nz (felch [10.0.0.1]) by felch.internot (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f28Ip5o04617; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 07:51:05 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jamiew@clear.net.nz) Message-ID: <3AA7D499.9F5C7B0B@clear.net.nz> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 07:51:05 +1300 From: Jamie Walker Organization: A Touch of Evil X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-BETA i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Young Cc: Jesper Holmberg , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About Unix References: <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <20010308115639.A4298@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> <022801c0a7c0$024f8860$847e03cb@apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Young wrote: > 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 Now this is just FUD. I've done this many times on Linux boxes and never had to re-install at all. Advocacy can be much better than this. -- Email: jamiew@clear.net.nz ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message