Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 14:20:35 +1030 From: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: About Unix Message-ID: <01030915094403.26742@PhD_1.testname.com.au> In-Reply-To: <024301c0a7de$930db020$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <OFA420CC63.6AEAEDB6-ON87256A08.006994B1@smed.com> <20010308131205.A1029@okb.lv> <024301c0a7de$930db020$847e03cb@apana.org.au>
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On Fri, 09 Mar 2001, Doug Young wrote:
> Our machines are located at various remote sites & typically its difficult
> to get there at a moments notice.
So your organisation didn't have the money for a small UPS which had
just enough energy on power failure on to run a script to power down
gracefully, for each site? Would have been MOST helpful, whatever
the OS. Especially in Queensland.
I guess the cheap-but-risky "she'll be right" system wasn't
YOUR recommendation!
>The linux systems typically failed to
> re-start automatically whereas FreeBSD ones do.
>{[..] I'm not
> aware of one instance of one of our FreeBSD systems needing re-install
> after a power failure.
To me this says super things about FreeBSD robustness, rather than bad
things about any other OS. Being a 'belt and braces' man myself, I'd
not want to run remotes without UPS, regardless.
So far as the migration from Linux is concerned, I think it is a
logical progression for the increasing number who are coming to Linux
as a refuge from Windows. Like me. I wouldn't have known about
FreeBSD if it hadn't been for Linux.
I completely agree about the execrable Linux documentation. The docs
for FreeBSD are VERY good. (Pedantic FreeBSD in particular <g>).
--
Regards,
Brian
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Flinders University Institute of International Education
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