From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 13:49:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0435637B71A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:49:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA21652; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 07:49:01 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from bryden.apana.org.au(203.3.126.129), claiming to be "roadrunner" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdZ21650; Fri Mar 9 07:48:53 2001 Message-ID: <00ee01c0a819$b2208ba0$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Jamie Walker" Cc: "Jesper Holmberg" , References: <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <20010308115639.A4298@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> <022801c0a7c0$024f8860$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <3AA7D499.9F5C7B0B@clear.net.nz> Subject: Re: About Unix Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 07:49:45 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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" To: "Doug Young" Cc: "Jesper Holmberg" ; 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