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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Stable *BSD for Intel Message-ID: <hastyCnCns4.J54@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2mnb20$8us@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <CGD.94Mar26180926@eden.cs.berkeley.edu> <2n4h1c$ct4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 00:52:51 GMT Lines: 40 In article <2n4h1c$ct4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <CGD.94Mar26180926@eden.cs.berkeley.edu>, >Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >>In article <2mnb20$8us@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >>>Tell me what these particular 'stability' problem were Charles, so the >>>rest of us can know, since I'm not aware of them. >> >>well, i saw at least one piece of mail go by in which the author >>of the mail claimed that the new FreeBSD wd driver did "Bad Things" (TM) >>to his file systems... > >Please show me. There were problems with it doing 'nothing' to his file >system due to the bogus partition table, but definately not bad things. > >I could state all sorts of things w/out any proof as well about any piece >of software, but it wouldn't be true. > > Well, this sort of postings doesn't help either FreeBSD or NetBSD... However, unbiased comments from users of either FreeBSD or NetBSD will probably be vastly more useful. My FreeBSD installation at work has been up for about 30 days without a crash. I use it to work, respond to e-mail, read news, etc. The OS installation and some of the apps reside on an IDE drive... Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X