Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 07:49:45 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Jamie Walker" <jamiew@clear.net.nz> Cc: "Jesper Holmberg" <jeho5791@student.uu.se>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: About Unix Message-ID: <00ee01c0a819$b2208ba0$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> References: <OFA420CC63.6AEAEDB6-ON87256A08.006994B1@smed.com> <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <20010308115639.A4298@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> <022801c0a7c0$024f8860$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <3AA7D499.9F5C7B0B@clear.net.nz>
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Its only gotta happen once when you have an all volunteer organization with few people willing to do anything / 50 or 100 dialin users who depend on the thing being running / the servers located remotely where it can take a day or two before anyone gets there. After several times one stops seeing the funny side. As I said earlier, the FreeBSD systems do the job expected of them, the linux ones did not. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamie Walker" <jamiew@clear.net.nz> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: "Jesper Holmberg" <jeho5791@student.uu.se>; <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 4:51 AM Subject: Re: About Unix > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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