Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:18:17 -0700 From: "Tim Oneil" <toneil@visigenic.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970418161816.009e3e40@visigenic.com>
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At 03:50 PM 4/18/97 -0600, you wrote: >Umm, have you *ever* used Win95 or NT? We *regularly* (easily every 3 >months) have to re-install every few months (sometimes less than 3). At >my wife's work, they re-install everything on a regular basis as well, >and almost every company I know that uses any M$ OS recommends >re-installing the OS at *least* once/year due to application upgrades. Ummm, yes. I can't say we never re-install, but certainly not with that frequency. Why in the world do you feel it necessary to re-install every 3 months? I'm sorry, but that's absurd. Microsoft doesn't even release patches for their crap every 3 months. I have worked for three companies in silicon valley in the last ten years and none of them have ever made such a recommendation to me. If they did I would laugh in their faces and recommend they take their recommendation elsewhere and let me get some work done. >Re-installs are pretty common in the user world. I disagree. I used NT 3.5.1 for a year, the only thing I did to it was apply a patch when they became available, and then upgrade (so to speak) to NT 4.0 when it came out. I would really like to know what symptoms I should look for coming from my workstation that let me know when its time for a re-install. Do you mind?
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