From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 3:33:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07DCB37B405 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 03:33:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fAKBXBo93007; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:33:11 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <013201c171b7$22d78cb0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Steve Brown" , References: <3BF9B12B.3D521A4D@nycap.rr.com> <0111191831240Q.60958@chip.wiegand.org> <20011119220243.A268@prayforwind.com> <009a01c171a9$4eedbee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120061026.A2767@prayforwind.com> Subject: Re: home pc use Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:33:05 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 Steve writes: > I've not seen FreeBSD just crash without explanation > ever in a year of use. Given the design of UNIX, I was extremely surprised to see the system crash with KDE. As I've said elsewhere, my best guess right now is that a bug in a video driver took the system down. I hope and assume that KDE or even XFree is not trying to bypass UNIX to perform privileged operations. > I have seen netscape whack X twice, just type > startx again. Yes, and if Windows crashes, just wait for it to reboot! > It -is- less intuitive than Windows for sure; you'd > better be interested in learning something about O/S > and computers or you may be disappointed. Agreed. That's why it is not a realistic alternative to Windows, except perhaps for geeks who like to learn about such things (as opposed to just using the computer as a tool). > Actually I'm one of those who tried it 'cause I > wanted a choice other thane Microsoft (Had the 1'st > incarnation of Win98 at the time and I grew sick > of fdisk/formatting on a weekly basis) And do you really think it is a realistic alternative? You should have tried Windows NT/2000 instead; it's a completely different OS, despite appearances, and it is rock stable. Unfortunately, it also costs several hundred dollars ... and if you need _server_ functionality (as opposed to a desktop), it offers no major advantages over FreeBSD, and a number of disadvantages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message