From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 27 0:20:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E72A214C29 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 00:20:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10muSs-00051w-0B; Thu, 27 May 1999 07:20:30 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id IAA01726; Thu, 27 May 1999 08:20:00 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA08636; Thu, 27 May 1999 08:19:57 +0100 Message-ID: <374CF1C5.FE25A459@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 08:18:29 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: "John S. Dyson" , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Note on my experience with Netscape 4.6 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Wed, 26 May 1999, John S. Dyson wrote: > > > Gang, > > Didn't know where to post this, so just thought > > that I'd tell you that if you are running the > > Linux version of 4.6, give the FreeBSD version a > > try if you can. It really seems LOTS faster on > > startup, and might even be faster in general for > > some reason. > > How is it stability-wise? That seems to be the major reason most people use > the Linux version over the native one. > Stability problems aren't just with the FreeBSD version, 4.5 running on my Sun (SunOS 4.1.3, i.e. BSD) here at work exhibits all the same problems as the FreeBSD version, crashes (mainly sig 10), won't save many preferences (toolbar position, "remember last message" in mail and news), takes an inordinate amount of time to do searches in HTML docs, etc. Just doesn't seem to work well in a BSD environment. > Kris > > ----- > "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, > because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." > -- Unknown > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message