Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 19:04:11 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: toneil@visigenic.com (Tim Oneil) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <199704190004.TAA02102@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970418161816.009e3e40@visigenic.com> from Tim Oneil at "Apr 18, 97 04:18:17 pm"
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> > >Re-installs are pretty common in the user world. > > I disagree. I used NT 3.5.1 for a year, the only thing I did to it > was apply a patch when they became available, and then upgrade (so to > speak) to NT 4.0 when it came out. I would really like to know > what symptoms I should look for coming from my workstation that > let me know when its time for a re-install. Do you mind? > One of the problems is the cr*p that builds up when you are designing/debugging/hacking OCX's... Also, the version management is really nasty -- note the problem with VB5 being incompatible with new OCX's. You can quickly/easily mess up an NT config, with little recourse other than reinstall, or forage around a bunch of dll's or ocx's to find the one that is the wrong version. That is very tricky on NT. I have seen people "just give up." John
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