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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box?
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 11:17:38 GMT
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In article <ins407x.733191967@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> ins407x@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
> jimmyhua@aludra.usc.edu (Jimmy Huang) writes:
> >Umm, yeah that's one of the things i hate about linux. If you do a quick
> >reboot, (i.e. flip the switch). your FS sometimes gets permanently screwed. 
> >Is this true with 386BSD too?

THe file system on 386BSD is the fastest and most solid I've seen on ANY
UNIX system, including other BSD based boxes. I have yet to even lose a file
to crashes or my own fumblefingeredness.

> By the way, guys, is all this crap really necessary ?

No. It's just natural when you get a bunch of fanatics like us together, but
it's *really* annoying when it gets this deep. I'm trying to pull my waders
up over my head and the stuff's *still* leaking in.

I *will* be trying Linux when I get another system to play on. In the mean
time I'm using 386BSD because I had more and better reports of its reliability.
I was particularly disturbed on hearing Linux was using KA9Q as the base of
its networking code. I'm all too familiar with *that* software. It's an amazing
feat, getting networking up on DOS (or any system with no usable O/S)... but
the result is a program with all sorts of weirdnesses.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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