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From: robert@humbug.org.au (Robert Brockway)
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Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
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Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 18:24:55 +1000
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Peter da Silva (peter@nmti.com) wrote:
: How should I put this:
: I'm a bad pet-owner when it comes to operating systems. I abuse them. I
: make them run two concurrent X servers (on different VCs) with Netscape
: and Xkobo and other horrid programs bashing away all at the same time.
: And that's on a fairly 486 with 16M running 3 mailing lists, 3 MUDs, and
: a website. I've got gobs of swap, but I'll run it out of that, and come
: home to see that it's been running out of swap on and off all day.
Been there done that on Linux. 2 or more X servers on different VCs isn't
hard to do, and then i've gone one to compile kernels,etc. Linux keeps
running. One data point each :-) I think these stability arguments can
go a bit silly. Linux does what I want, and never falls over for me
unless I do something really stupid.
: And it just runs.
Yep, thats what i found with Linux too :-)
: I haven't tried to do the same thing to Linux. I wouldn't dare. I wouldn't
: dare do it with Solaris or SCO or Unixware or ISC or any of the others
: either. I couldn't imagine doing anything *like* that on NT. I know lots
: of folks who *are* doing impressive things on Linux, but they're doing a
: lot of coddling compared to me.
I _never_ coddle an OS. I refuse to.
: I dare say Linux today is stable enough for most people. Compared to the
: sort of junk you get from Redmond it's no doubt a miracle system.
: FreeBSD is just better.
Perhaps. but then perhaps not. All i see if alot of claims by both camps,
and subjective statements. and for the record, I am the President of a
Unix club - we have Linux,*BSD,Solaris and other running. So i have some
exposure to different Unices.
Cheers,
-Robert
--Robert Brockway. email: robert@zen.humbug.org.au (preferred)
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Linux the choice of a Gnu generation