Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 11:33:37 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" <karl@mcs.com> Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert), hsu@cs.hut.fi, jmacd@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: What people are doing with FBSD Message-ID: <199507191833.LAA03531@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jul 1995 13:09:05 CDT." <m0sYdYQ-000IDWC@venus.mcs.com>
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>>> "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" said:
> > > There are other more subtle reasons, but those are far enough.
> >
> > I'd like to hear the subtle ones 8^). I think the only one of merit
> > that I've seen above is stability, and that's only tangential to
> > installation.
> >
> > > We currently use about 15 PC's running FreeBSD as routers and servers, b
ut
> > > the user workstations and personnel's home machines are Linux. The main
> > > reasons for using FreeBSD here is Linux networking code (sigh) and
> > > non-existant source management, and probably some history. FreeBSD gets
> > > hurt badly by unstability, not much change to "sell" FreeBSD to anyone a
s
> > > long as the longest uptimes are weeks.
> >
> > Clearly, the BSD folks are more than willing to try to resolve *ANY*
> > stability issue you might have; the biggest problem is that they remain
> > unreported, and you can't fix a bug you aren't told about.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Terry Lambert
>
> Ours don't remain unreported :-)
>
> On the other hand, I have to second what Terry says. I've received a number
> of suggestions, things to try, and even guesses in the wind about the
> problems I've reported.
>
> Yes, I still have some problems with stability. But we *are* getting closer
> and making progress, and the list of exceptions at present with FreeBSD is
> down to *TWO*.
>
> Considering that BSDI has a longer list than that, some of which have
> remained open for a long time, and Linux is the patch-of-the-hour club IMHO,
> there is no way these compare.
>
> I happen to personally HATE the installer that FreeBSD uses, as adding disks
> to an existing system is a real bitch of a job the way they do things. The
> nice (and it IS nice) installer that you get when you boot disk #1 is not
> available once you have it up, and that's really too bad -- if FreeBSD had a
> nice, clean disk partitioning and labelling tool I'd be in hog heaven right
> now.
>
> --
>
I have to sencod that for a little while ago my second disk drive corrupted
itself real bad. So I had to reformat it and I am still having problems
with the disks. Now it was just like the good old days of 386bsd to
install a disk label :(
Others have mentioned it and I will stated also sysintall needs to be
able to run on a normal system to label disks, install packages, etc..
Amancio
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