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Date:      Fri, 09 Mar 2001 07:16:14 -0000
From:      "BSD Blood" <bsdblood@hotmail.com>
To:        dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au, jeho5791@student.uu.se, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: About Unix
Message-ID:  <F168eLYCT4aJ6pkNzPZ000035ff@hotmail.com>

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Utterly agree.


>From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
>To: "Jesper Holmberg" <jeho5791@student.uu.se>, 
><freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
>Subject: Re: About Unix
>Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 21:07:45 +1000
>
>Try the following on both a linux & a BSD system
>
>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
>
>We did have exclusively linux in our servers but since the changeover to
>FreeBSD the uptimes have increased to the point where machines
>generally keep going constantly from one upgrade til the next ... usually
>a year or so later. The Redhat / Slackware / Debian systems rarely went
>for a month before something or other broke. We do have the odd Win2000
>Server system (required for certain software applications) & their uptime
>is generally superior to linux ..... no comparison with BSD though.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jesper Holmberg" <jeho5791@student.uu.se>
>To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
>Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 8:56 PM
>Subject: Re: About Unix
>
>
> >
> > Let me take the opportunity to jump into this Linux-bashing thread,
> > and ask a related question.
> >
> > I am a long time Linux user who have for quite a while been aware of
> > the *BSDs, planning to try it out. Since a couple of weeks, I've
> > had FreeBSD installed on an extra machine.
> >
> > No bad experiences so far. A lot of reading had to be done, but that
> > was expected. But to sum up my experience somewhat naively, I would
> > say: this is like Linux, just a lot of small differences.
> >
> > So my question to you would be: can you tell my just why I should hang
> > in there? Why do you prefer FreeBSD? What will I discover if I stay
> > that is not obvious at first sight?
> >
> > I know this could be regarded as flame-bait, but since this
> > Linux-bashing was already started, I was thinking I could perhaps jump
> > in and ask that the discussion be steered towards some information for
> > us FreeBSD-newbies.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Jesper
> >
> > --
> >                             "But how can one be warm alone?"
> >
> > Jesper Holmberg         jeho5791@student.uu.se
> >
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