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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ...
Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 15:37:26 -0700
Organization: Me
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Nick Kralevich wrote:
]
] In article <3194622D.41C67EA6@Ami-chan.res.cmu.edu>,
] Yun-Ching (Allen) Lee <yunching@Ami-chan.res.cmu.edu> wrote:
[ ... ]
] >Once, Linux crashed on me. I resetted and the superblock of
] >the main partition was corrupted, and the kernel wouldn't
] >mount the root device at all.
]
] I'm not sure what you mean by "resetted".
He means "hit the red button labelled 'reset'".
] >FreeBSD uses .tar.gz files with special
] >files to describe the packages, and store them in a very
] >logical place (/var/db/pkg).
]
] The problem comes up when you upgrade.
[ ... ]
] With FreeBSD, the recommended thing to do is to do a
] complete reinstall from scratch.
Only if Nick is doing the recommending, and he's biased.
] There is no feature in FreeBSD to do easy upgrades.
Incorrect. You really haven't used FreeBSD in a while, have
you? In place upgrade went in more than a year ago.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.