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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Re: Where is 386BSD?
In-Reply-To: cor@hacktic.nl's message of 23 Oct 1993 02: 46:32 +0100
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In article <2aa2e6INNpfc@xs4all.hacktic.nl> cor@hacktic.nl (Cor Bosman) writes:
   See, I dont get this. Ive been running a 500+ user, 150+ uucp
   site, 12 dialin , full newsfeed 386bsd 0.1 + PK 0.2.4 386BSD
   and its remarkably stable. It stays up for weeks on end.
   On the other end..I have friends with FreeBSD that crash several
   times a day. This whole 'MY BSD IS BETTER' thing is getting stupid.
   cor

I think you've been very lucky.  Both the NetBSD and FreeBSD folks
will agree that 386BSD has a *known* bug list as long as your arm.
Perhaps your 500+ user, 150+ uucp (do they all log in simultaneously?! :-)
site has just had an uncommon run of luck, I don't know, though I'd also
say that if it's working that well for you then heck, if it ain't broke
don't fix it.

As to your crash-once-per-second friends, we always seems to hear
about someone with "friends" like this in discussions of this sort,
but details are always amazingly sketchy when we try to pin them down!
Many many many of us run FreeBSD "for weeks on end" without crashes,
so if you have someone who's hardware or FreeBSD config is giving them
the blues then you ought to have them contact us.  We can't help those
who do not ask.

					Jordan

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