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From: jjs@taipei.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Sun/Solaris or Pentium/Linux for new server ?
Date: 4 Aug 1995 20:01:29 GMT
Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside
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In article <3vtrgi$8hu@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.de>,
Heiko W.Rupp <hwr@pilhuhn.de> wrote:
>jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) writes:
>>I messed around with netBSD 0.9 a while back. I was impressed with the 
>..
>>was also running linux 0.99.15 on some other machines in the same lab.
>
>Both are outdated ...
That means nothing to the point I made.

>I also saw/see very stable NetBSD boxes and Linux boxes which crashed
>five times a day - so what? 

I've never seen linux do that in 2 years.

Like I said, I offered an "anecdotal experience".

sorry if it aggravated a sore spot with you.

--
It's sad to see people buying wholesale into some Microsoft-generated
hype about ancient ideas emerging as 'New Technology'.