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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux vs ....
Date: 27 Aug 1995 17:02:45 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <41ncq0$esj@gol1.gol.com>, MICHAEL <michael@gnj.or.jp> wrote:
>
>I am curious about this also. I have been "using" Linux for a few months
>now, but it is unstable. It keeps on having "kernel panics" -- sometimes
>once every week or so, and sometimes several times a day. Is FreeBSD
>more stable?
Well, the 2.1.0-STABLE install I have on my system is definitely
much more stable than what you describe above. If you want to run
Linux, you have to know which are the "stable" releases (typically
something with an even minor version number). I got tired of keeping
track of that, and I don't miss it one bit now that I'm using FreeBSD.
Just stick to kernels with the -RELEASE or -STABLE suffix and you
shouldn't have too many problems.
>Also, if anybody has any hints on turning my system into a FreeBSD
>system from Linux I would appreciate it. I don't care if I have to
>delete the Linux stuff, except I would like to keep the X-Window
>configuration files, since they took forever to figure out. (^_^)
Probably best to copy your /etc/XF86Config and whatever else to a
DOS partition, wipe out Linux, install FreeBSD, then read them back in
again. XFree86 is functionally the same under both OS's.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org