Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:59:12 -0400 From: "Predius" <predius@gwi.net> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! Message-ID: <004301c14bae$ffb13200$7e01a8c0@junktop> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0110021830460.1611-100000@ugrad.unbc.ca>
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Alot of the percieved instability with 2k/NT has to do with how close you are to a stock install. Out of the box, if you don't add a single 3rd party driver, 2k can be pretty solid, but slow and limited. It's when you start putting drivers to 2k that it's reliability begins to erode. Alot of drivers out there stink, infact they are just plain aweful. Creative SB drivers, any card, under SMP come to mind first. Certain Linksys nics require hacked drivers to stop bluescreening, etc. If the hardware itself is known solid and you get BSOD's, write down the error and search for it online. 99% of them can be prevented. To put it annother way, I have no qualms about putting 2k boxes into production use provided I am allowed to pick and choose the hardware and do the install myself. : ) 2k can be made amazingly solid, it just takes some work, and less faith in hardware vendors getting the software side of the equation right. Joshua Coombs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Karlson" <karlj000@unbc.ca> To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Cc: "James McNaughton" <jtm63@enteract.com>; "Mit Rowe" <mitayai@dreaming.org>; <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 9:34 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! > > (Note that (a) this happens to me even on a stock install, (b) it *doesn't* > > happen to most people, and (c) it doesn't happen if I give it limited use, > > such as a vmware session in which I only run IE; I assume my normal usage > > patterns just push it beyond its limits.) > > This happens to me too. The people at work often wonder what I'm doing to > the machine to make it crash so frequently, because one guy there claims > he's never had a BSOD happen to him. > > I really think it's my usage patterns. If I don't have 10 things running > at once, it's a boring day. :-) > > -- > > Jeremy > > The polite thing to do has always been to address people as they wish to be > addressed, to treat them in a way they think dignified. But it is equally > important to accept and tolerate different standards of courtesy, not > expecting everyone else to adapt to one's own preferences. Only then can > we hope to restore the insult to its proper social function of expressing > true distaste. > -- Judith Martin, "Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly > Correct Behavior" > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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