From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 23:16:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f168.law12.hotmail.com [64.4.19.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C2D37B718 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:16:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdblood@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:16:14 -0800 Received: from 203.121.16.72 by lw12fd.law12.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 09 Mar 2001 07:16:14 GMT X-Originating-IP: [203.121.16.72] From: "BSD Blood" To: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au, jeho5791@student.uu.se, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About Unix Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 07:16:14 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Mar 2001 07:16:14.0551 (UTC) FILETIME=[D38A8670:01C0A868] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Utterly agree. >From: "Doug Young" >To: "Jesper Holmberg" , > >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" >To: >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 > > > > 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 _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message