From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 3 08:17:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA04541 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 08:17:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zwei.siemens.at (zwei.siemens.at [193.81.246.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA04536 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 08:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol1.gud.siemens.co.at (root@firix [10.1.143.100]) by zwei.siemens.at (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA23558 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:16:18 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at by sol1.gud.siemens.co.at with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7 for ) id m0uxxD8-00021pC; Tue, 3 Sep 96 17:16 MET DST Received: by ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (1.37.109.16/1.37) id AA139153534; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:12:14 +0200 From: "Hr.Ladavac" Message-Id: <199609031512.AA139153534@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux 96 (my impressions) To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:12:14 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: jehamby@lightside.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199609031433.KAA20639@etinc.com> from "Dennis" at Sep 3, 96 10:33:16 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk E-mail message from Dennis contained: > > You left out one big disadvantage. The Kernel implementation is a pile > of crap, and that different combinations of drivers will yield almost random > results in terms of reliability and stability. > > Just my impression. Shame that no one really cares about it. All the people want to see is that it's so easy for newcommers. Just like Windows. In more than one aspect :) /Marino