From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 15 14:11:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16774 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:11:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (firewall-user@alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA16754 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:11:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <52013(4)>; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:10:45 PDT Received: from gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (gnu [13.231.133.90]) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA13569; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 15:13:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gnu (localhost) by gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/client-1.3) id AA19947; Wed, 15 Jul 98 15:13:33 EDT Message-Id: <9807151913.AA19947@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Chris Johnson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jer@hughes.net Subject: Re: Disgruntled Linux User... questions about FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Jul 1998 15:56:52 PDT." <19980713185652.A11340@palomine.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 12:13:32 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Your hardware probably *is* bad. I have no doubt that FreeBSD is a more solid > OS than Linux, but Linux is still a very stable OS, certainly much more so than > NT. If constant crashes are the "story of [your] life with Linux" and if your > Linux box is the "most unstable computer [you] have ever used in [your] entire > life," then I suspect that you'll have similar problems with FreeBSD, since you > either have lousy hardware or don't know what you're doing. > > I tend to agree...I listen to lots of linux and freebsd lists and have never been aware of Jeremy Domingue's complaints Crash is a loaded word...which kernel is being used? Have other kernels been tried? What type of crash? Where did you ask for help (I found the linux community to be very helpful). Are you doing anything esoteric with your machine to make it crash? Patient: Dr, it hurts when I do this Doctor: Don't do that!! IMHO, SMP could be asking for problems (unless you want to debug it), get rid of an SMP configuration for starters... When Linux panics, you see some diagnostic output on the screen... Why don't you drop a note to Linux-kernel? -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com The Feynman problem solving Algorithm 1) Write down the problem 2) Think real hard 3) Write down the answer Murray Gell-mann in the NY Times To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message