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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:17546 comp.os.linux.misc:44205 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ee.und.ac.za!ucthpx!pc17.scilab.uct.ac.za!emahuno From: emahuno@engmlab.uct.ac.za Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 07:51:42 GMT Organization: University of Cape Town Lines: 37 Message-ID: <emahuno.1.2FBAFC8E@engmlab.uct.ac.za> References: <3ovd1u$1jtd@otho.cc.flinders.edu.au> <MICHAELV.95May12203839@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <3p284n$l6s@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3p360d$6sp@agate.berkeley.edu> <3p39mb$pbt@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc17.scilab.uct.ac.za In article <3p39mb$pbt@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes: >From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) >Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux >Date: 13 May 1995 22:52:11 +0100 >jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >>>Just as a matter of interest, I couldn't boot FreeBSD on my Pentium/PCI. >>>It just hung on the second (cpio) diskette. >>Hmmm. I urge you to retry this with the 2.0.5 release candidate, when >>it's out, and tell us if the problem persists. >I will try it, as and when I see it. >I tried it before, because of minor but annoying bugs with Linux >(the dreaded signal 11) on my machine. >I'm coming to the conclusion that this _is_ a hardware problem, >as everyone says, and so will presumably occur with FreeBSD. >However, if it does not I would be sorely tempted to move across. >-- >Timothy Murphy >e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie >tel: +353-1-2842366 >s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland