From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 18: 4:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ifour.com.br (midas.ifour.com.br [200.236.148.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABF4F37B4CF for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:04:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 17499 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2000 23:06:23 -0000 Received: from port48.tdnet.com.br (HELO ifour.com.br) (200.236.148.148) by midas.ifour.com.br with SMTP; 1 Nov 2000 23:06:23 -0000 Message-ID: <3A00AF92.A731834F@ifour.com.br> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 00:04:34 +0000 From: Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Charlie Root , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, liberty6@twcny.rr.com Subject: Re: pissed!!! References: <200010311342.IAA00323@takiweb.yi.org> <20001101135036.T79472@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 31 October 2000 at 8:42:25 -0500, Charlie Root wrote: > > Dear freebsd.org, > > I am PISSED!!! I used to be a winblows user, converted to Linux, and > > ran OpenBSD for a few months. But since I've installed the $49.99 > > CompUSA boxed version of FreeBSD 4.0, when I run startx my system > > crashes! Is this what you consider to be "rock-solid stability??" > > Sometimes when I run startx, I get X to work. The other times, my > > system crashes to a point where I need to do a physical powerdown > > of my machine, cause even ctrl-alt-del wont work. > > I have a pentium 2 300MHz class machine, with an SiS 5598 > > video board. Nobody in the chat rooms knows anything about what I'm > > talking about. And I am PISSED!!! OpenBSD was working great (even via an > > ftp install!) But no, FreeBSD wants to be the luser in my box!! > > What should I do to fix this problem??? > > Please email me with the fix! > > Reinstall OpenBSD. That's the point here, the sentence "rock solid" is just that, a sentence! FreeBSD is stable, but my experience with Open has showed me what a more controlled project can reach in terms of quality, for instance, openbsd does not have their developer commiting CURRENT code to the STABLE branch, and this happens in Free! My suggestion is like Greg's one, reinstall OpenBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message