Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:11:59 +0800 (+0800) From: Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridging with 3C589D-COMBO on 4.2-RELEASE? Message-ID: <200103121111.f2CBBxT17315@netrinsics.com>
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Brian T. Schellenberger writes:
>PS: In my experience, though FreeBSD has lots of advantages, it is
>*much* less stable than Linux. It's crashed -way- more than Linux ever
>did; more even than Windows does at work (of course I push Windows a lot
>less). And I've had it lose files a couple of times when it came back
>up after a hard crash like that.
>
>Is this at all normal?
>Is it at all normal for folks with laptops?
I've been using FreeBSD on all my various laptops since 2.0.5, back in '95.
I'm running 5.0-CURRENT now. In all these years, versions, and machines,
FreeBSD has only ever crashed on me either as the result of reproducible, known
deficiencies in the support of laptop-hardware esoterica (e.g., bad handling of
PCMCIA card ejection, etc.), or reproducible, known deficiencies in the
handling of resource starvation (e.g. an inadvertant infinitely recursive
Makefile sucks up all available file descriptor slots). In every configuration,
it has only been a question of knowing the few things not to do, and not doing
them.
Generally speaking, the rule of thumb is that if FreeBSD crashes for no
apparent reason, your hardware is bad.
-Michael Robinson
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