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From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
Date: 25 Mar 1997 01:16:43 -0800
Organization: BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
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:In article <5h5jgr$et4$1@news.clinet.fi>,
:Kristoffer Lawson <setok@FIX.TIN.DOMAIN> wrote:
:>Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
:>
:>: That and stop using such obvious ploys as the old "offhand comment using
:>: purported 2nd hand information" trick. I could just as easily say
:>: "Didn't I hear somewhere on the net that Kristoffer likes to wear
:>: women's clothing?" and I wouldn't have to supply a shred of supporting
:>: evidence for my bizarre statement. After all, I'm only suggesting that
:>: I *might* have read it, and the comment referred to certainly wasn't
:>: *mine*, so... :-)
:>
:>Well, naturally, you don't know the background story. These guys I was
:>referring to have been running FreeBSD for years on their systems and
:>one of the major ISPs around here. Now someone here mentioned there was a
:>bug and it's now fixed. Well that's fine and I congratulate the FreeBSD team
:>for their system blabla etc. We'll try it out round here sometime but I'd like
:>to just point out that everything we've heard about FreeBSD tells us it's
:>not as great a system as you would imply. We'll know more, of course,
:>when we get round to testing it.
:>
:>--
:> ________ setok@fishpool.com ________
:> Setok - Aggression. Fishpool Creations Ltd.
:> Helsinki University, Computer Sciences
:> http://www.fishpool.com/~setok/
:> ---- . Kristoffer Lawson . ----
Nonsense. Every operating system has bugs. As bugs go, this particular
bug in FreeBSD caused problems on one of our machines for a period of
around two weeks... one machine out of a dozen running FreeBSD, where
most of the boxes have been up for months (basically they don't crash
unless we take them down to install a new kernel or if a disk dies).
I've endured much, much worse from other vendor's UNIXes.
FreeBSD *IS* as great a system as Jordan implies... it is *very* well
proven in the field. I have never seen anything more stable then
2.1.7. Never. Not even SunOs.
-Matt