From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Mar 12 3:12: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from neptune.he.net (neptune.he.net [216.218.166.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B094C37B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 03:12:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robinson@netrinsics.com) Received: from netrinsics.com ([211.101.228.66] (may be forged)) by neptune.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id DAA04610 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 03:12:02 -0800 Received: (from robinson@localhost) by netrinsics.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f2CBBxT17315 for freebsd-mobile@outbound.freebsd.org.; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:11:59 +0800 (+0800) (envelope-from robinson) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:11:59 +0800 (+0800) From: Michael Robinson Message-Id: <200103121111.f2CBBxT17315@netrinsics.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridging with 3C589D-COMBO on 4.2-RELEASE? Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message