From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 14 13:36:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6268A37B619 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 13:36:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3EKZJG13255; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 13:35:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010414134832.0499ff00@localhost> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 13:34:47 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Just an observation - MUA's seen in the lists Cc: FreeBSD Chat , Chip Wiegand , Kris Kirby , Terry Lambert , Rahul Siddharthan Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 14-Apr-01 Brett Glass wrote: > At 05:42 AM 4/14/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > >>And what would you call the Windows registry? >> >>The only thing people can do if the registry is damaged is reinstall >>everything. That's always an option on any operating system, but >>(except in some bizarre situation) you never have to resort to that on >>FreeBSD. > > The Windows Registry is an abomination. It puts all of a system's > eggs in one fragile, insecure basket. s/Windows Registry/netinfo database/, s/Windows Registry/\/etc directory/, etc. The whole system is a fragile basket. This is why we have the nifty feature known as 'backups'. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message