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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:30948 comp.os.386bsd.questions:998 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!flatlin!pilhuhn!snert.ka.sub.org!hwr From: hwr@snert.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? References: <C4BowL.DK3@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1ome2o$1lu6@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Mar23.085058.13670@serval.net.wsu.edu> <CGD.93Mar23030821@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <hwr.732890376@snert.ka.sub.org> <SCT.93Mar23224452@belnahua.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 09:16:26 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: snert.ka.sub.org Organization: The Home of the Pilhuhn Sender: news@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Das Newssystem auf pilhuhn) Message-ID: <hwr.732964586@snert.ka.sub.org> Lines: 27 sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes: >hwr@snert.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) writes: >> There is another thing to consider: 386bsd has a stable BSD-FFS and >> stable networking, while there are bugs in the Linux efs and in their >> networking. >To the very best of my knowledge - and filesystems is What I Do on Linux >- there are no known bugs in the efs, minix or xiafs file systems. I didn't wanted to upset you, but in the last three days, I heard of at least two Linuxers, who had trouble with their efs; Inodes couldn't be freeed, fsck wasn't able to clean the fs. >The networking point is well taken, though. More and more people seem >to be reporting that they are now running Linux networking successfully, Shure it's getting better. That's why I said '...has bugs ..' and not ' ... will always have a bug ..' or ' .. will always be buggier than ... '. - Heiko -- Heiko W.Rupp Gerwigstr.5 7500 Kh'e 1 hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org +49 721 693642 In Africa some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries. Anthropologists call this a form of primitive self-expression. In America we call it golf.