From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 21:29:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA25006 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 21:29:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (slipper5a.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.59]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA24991 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 21:29:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (zeus.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA09784; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 00:28:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 00:28:58 -0400 (EDT) From: jack X-Sender: jack@zeus.xtalwind.net To: Nate Williams cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) In-Reply-To: <199704182150.PAA24975@rocky.mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > > You decide between Window 95 and NT by understanding what the product can > > do and what is expected to be available in the foreseeable future. If you > > had to > > reinstall the thing every 3 months there'd be a lot of people using > > something else > > Umm, have you *ever* used Win95 or NT? Not if he's lucky. ;-) > We *regularly* (easily every 3 months) have to re-install every few > months (sometimes less than 3). One of our most cluefull customers had to format and re-install to convince 95 he had changed modems. Re-install without a format wouldn't do it. NoThanks 4.0's stock ATI ??? video drivers can't change desktop font size without a re-boot. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------