From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jul 22 12:15:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA20547 for alpha-outgoing; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 12:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA20540 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 12:15:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id PAA13445; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 15:15:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id PAA02642; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 15:15:10 -0400 (EDT) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Doug Rabson , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Its arrived In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jul 1997 10:06:24 PDT." <4244.869591184@time.cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 15:15:10 -0400 Message-ID: <2640.869598910@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote in message ID <4244.869591184@time.cdrom.com>: > Before that, I ran Red Hat Linux just to see what they were up to and > I wasn't much impressed. This is something I've heard echoed from friends. Linux/Alpha is fine for desktop machines that you can crash regularly, but don't expect it to have long uptimes. Even tho they hated it, they went back to DUX for production (they complained about not being able to tune it enough). Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info