From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 15 07:44:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 379A316A415 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:44:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl) Received: from solfertje.student.utwente.nl (solfertje.student.utwente.nl [130.89.167.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6745A43D46 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:44:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost.internal [127.0.0.1]) by solfertje.student.utwente.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 79C5D8051 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:43:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.236.150.4] (hollewijn.internal [10.236.150.4]) by solfertje.student.utwente.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69ED38020; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:43:45 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: References: <20060909173813.GA1388@FS.denninger.net> <45065C67.6040503@cs.tu-berlin.de> <4509A7ED.4090701@cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <0AE8B3AB-1709-4724-94C8-D25558B27EFF@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Alban Hertroys Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:44:07 +0200 To: "hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Fri Sep 15 09:43:48 2006 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 1.0000 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0023 X-DSPAM-Signature: 74,450a59b47241130310126 X-DSPAM-Factors: 27, Received*Sep, 0.40000, That, 0.40000, That, 0.40000, From*Alban, 0.40000, Subject*Guys+who's, 0.40000, just, 0.40000, (Hunter+Fuller), 0.40000, Mime-Version*Message, 0.40000, All+i, 0.40000, and+not, 0.40000, Subject*Guys, 0.40000, or, 0.40000, In-Reply-To*489A+87D1, 0.40000, an, 0.40000, References*87D1+1304D0D05F2D, 0.40000, meant, 0.40000, be+quite, 0.40000, >+It, 0.40000, of, 0.40000, of, 0.40000, References*<45065C67.6040503, 0.40000, Cc* List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:44:14 -0000 On Sep 15, 2006, at 24:34, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: >>> Hahahahaha... That's ironic... >> >> That wasn't meant to be ironic. Years of experience and >> observations of development lead to this conclusion. > > RIght. All i can say, though, is that someone that doesn't know any > better would probably not think "Oh! That means that upgrades are > possible between releases, and not that my system will actually > run, or anything!" > It just seems it'd be quite a cause of confusion. So, actually Microsoft may be correctly claiming that WindowsXP is more stable than Linux. That it spontaneously reboots as soon as I bore it isn't related at all... -- Alban Hertroys "This person has performed an illegal operation, and will be shot down." !DSPAM:74,450a59b47241130310126!