Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 12:23:15 +0100 From: James Mansion <james@wgold.demon.co.uk> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <3359FCA3.1398@wgold.demon.co.uk> References: <3.0.32.19970418174048.00af4084@etinc.com> <199704182150.PAA24975@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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Nate Williams wrote: > > > You decide between Window 95 and NT by understanding what the product can > > do and what is expected to be available in the foreseeable future. If you > > had to > > reinstall the thing every 3 months there'd be a lot of people using > > something else > > 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. > > Re-installs are pretty common in the user world. How odd. I don't think I reinstalled NT ever on this box, which had vanilla 3.51 from new (and W95 on a FAT partition) and its been up through every service pack up to 4.0sp2, which I reverted out admitedly, tho the backout process provided worked fine. The only time the box isn't up with NT is when I boot Linux on it, which I started to do recently when my Linux/UnixWare box died. Have you tried to figure out WHY these reinstals are necessary? A lot of people claim to have big problems with NT and Win95, but it is not my experience, nor the experience within the two banks I've worked in most recently (Merrill and CSFP). James
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