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From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: Could the BSD 4.4 Lite be a new beginning?
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Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
References: <HSU.94Feb14043905@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi> <R60q1p-.dysonj@delphi.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 18:32:03 GMT
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In <R60q1p-.dysonj@delphi.com> John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> writes:
>Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi> writes:
>
>>I'm still somewhat angry and depressed of the current situation, and this
>>problem is not getting any better with time, but turning up more and more
>>often. We are now running NetBSD 0.9, and it is clear that we need to go
>>to some other operating system because of the stability problems in it. We
>
>
>Hi, I am John Dyson, a core team member of FreeBSD. We have done
>alot to make the FreeBSD OS much more stable.
Not that it means a heck of a lot, but at any rate, a small
indication of the better stability of FreeBSD at this point is
the fact that it manages to survive crashme for several hours (I
have a system running crashme at the moment, and it has been
going nearly 8 hours).
(As a comparison, 386bsd0.1+patckit0.1 survived crashme for a few
seconds ! SunOS 4.1.1 survives crashme for between 30seconds to
just under 30 minutes!)
Geoff.
(Please note that I am _not_ trying to say that NetBSD or Linux
are any less stable - I know that people have run crashme for
weeks on Linux.)
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