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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!ns.mcs.kent.edu!kira.cc.uakron.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!imci5!suck-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!jake.esu.edu!grove.iup.edu!grove.iup.edu!nntp Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: BSDI Tech Support Message-ID: <310F956F.4B25@iu28.arin.k12.pa.us> From: Curtis Kaminski <ims@iu28.arin.k12.pa.us> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:14:39 -0500 Nntp-Posting-Host: quark.arin.k12.pa.us X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 13 John S. Dyson wrote: > BSDI, for more stable NFS, but slightly lower performance otherwise. > More complete, commercial style support is available directly > from the vendor. Check with other BSDI customers for > support quality info. It's costing money is the biggest > disadvantage. Another disadvantage is that the paid technical support you get from BSDI is not great. I have often received, "that is an unsupported feature", as a response from the tech support people. Also, perish the thought of calling and getting to talk to a live person immediately. They will call you back, but you are usually home from work for several hours, even if you called a 8am.