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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
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: 18 Mar 1997 16:06:28 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5gmb58$6jd$1@news.clinet.fi>,
setok@FIX.TIN.DOMAIN (Kristoffer Lawson) writes:
> Matt Dillon (dillon@flea.best.net) wrote:
>
>: FreeBSD has, frankly, a much more serious development team. They care
>: about security, they care about doing things the right way, they
>: care about keeping the core and surrounding utilities reasonably up
>: to date, about keeping their customers up to date, about fixing bugs
>: and security holes... one can call it a 'research system' all one likes,
>: but it doesn't change the fact that FreeBSD and BSDI are both serious
>: operating systems, both better supported and more professional then IRIX.
>
> Hm, last I heard, FreeBSD had serious troubles when running under heavy
> loads on some Internet servers around here, totally crashing their machines.
> I also doubt FreeBSD supports any sensible SMP or filesystems like XFS etc.
> though I admit I haven't been following recent development in FreeBSD.
> After I got the patched IRIX6.3 I haven't had any problems with it and this
> O2 has been very stable.
Hmm, maybe it's time to re-evaluate your FreeBSD opinions.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !