From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 23:54:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from samwise.jobeus.net (samwise.jobeus.net [209.91.102.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E7937B419 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 23:54:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from frodo (frodo.jobeus.net [209.91.102.75]) by samwise.jobeus.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g327q8H09386 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 00:52:08 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@jobeus.net) Message-Id: <200204020752.g327q8H09386@samwise.jobeus.net> From: "Scott Carmichael" To: Subject: RE: Q about the benefit of using freebsd in business Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 00:55:15 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 11.0.3814 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Subject-Prefix: RE: In-Reply-To: <20020402054347.40EDCBB4C@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Most obviously, FreeBSD offers two benefits over the more typical choices > like Microsoft: > 1. Stability > 2. Price. > FreeBSd is free and it's much more stable. Though I won't argue about #2, I've had quite a stable experience with Windows 2000 and Windows XP, on multiple systems, though yes, there has been insecurities to worry about. Actually, a box that I used for Visual C++ development (Windows 2000) had an uptime of 98 days before I quit work and had to hand it back to IT... And my boxes at home rarely are rebooted except to move hardware around. However, my FreeBSD box, though quasi-stable has done two weird things in it's history: Froze (caps lock wouldn't even trigger) upon playing any sound (apparently a known and unfixed problem with Aureal Sound Drivers), and once after getting hammered with ssh and rlogin attempts, FreeBSD just simply took itself off the network and I couldn't seem to get it to reconnect. It wouldn't ping anything at all. Very weird. Rebooting fixed that, but still. In addition, with many flavours of Linux, I've experienced repeated hangs loading various network drivers on startup, for apparently no reason. All in all, I've had some weird problems, and can't really support a "more stable" claim, though I know that most of you guys will disagree, that's just been my experience. -- Scott Carmichael http://jobeus.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message