Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 10:26:13 -0700 From: Gary Landers <gary@tein.net> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "pat.groce@state.sd.us" <pat.groce@state.sd.us> Subject: Re: unix is a problem: free bsd doesn't help Message-ID: <364725B4.2AB7FB46@tein.net> References: <199811091643.IAA22978@hub.freebsd.org>
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I run both NT and FreeBSD, The only reason I use NT is for hosting Frontpage
sites. FreeBSD is definitely far more stable and requires less hardware. I
recently set up a new system and thought it was fairly obvious that production
systems shouldn't be running 3.0. I also feel that the UNIX support via the
web, mail lists, and news groups is far superior to any thing MS offers. Total
cost of ownership is far less with the UNIX systems.
"Walker, Scott" wrote:
> I am of the opnopn "to each, his own" NT does stuff, freebsd does
> stuff, unix does stuff, unix may do certian things better, NT may do
> certiain things better. As long as it does what you want, go for it.
> But it is obvious he made several mistakes
> 1. Running 3.0-Devel in a production enviroment is no a good idea.
> they have a stable version for a reason
> 2. if 3.0 didn't work why didn't he try 2.0.
>
> just my .02
>
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> Subject: Re: unix is a problem: free bsd doesn't help
> Author: "Quintin Oliver" [SMTP:quintin@smlt.com] at BCEEXCH
> Date: 11/9/98 12:00 PM
>
> Well said!! NT = "low brain activity";
>
>
> On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Willow wrote:
>
> > Some people like to swim at the shallow end of the gene pool. From what I
>
> > can see from the deep end, most of the people in the shallow end run NT :)
>
> >
> > --
> > willow@tds.edu
> > --
> >
> > On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Jerry Bell wrote:
> >
> > > I'm sorry FreeBSD is beyond your level of comprehension. Hopefully NT
> will
> > > be more suited to your abilities.
> > >
> > >
> > > > We had been running freebsd for 4 years to handle our internet email.
> > > Last
> > > > week the hard drive crashed on the system. I had a tape backup of
> > > important
> > > > files so i reinstalled using the new freebsd 3.0 version.
> > > >
> > > > My experience was utter horror and despair! The new version have
> several
> > > > problems - my ethernet card wouldn't work - until we turned the port
> on
> > > our
> > > > cabletron switch to 10 mbps instead of auto negotiate. I tried
> compiling
> > > new
> > > > versions of majoirdom to get the listservs running - but all it gave
> me
> > > were
> > > > cryptic errors. Sendmail keeps giving me an error:
> > > >
> > > > sendmail[131]: NOQUEUE: low on space (have 0, SMTP-DAEMON needs 101 in
>
> > > > /var/spool/mqueue)
> > > >
> > > > and countless other errors. I have to shutdown the system every 10
> hours
> > > and
> > > > restart it just to telnet to it.
> > > >
> > > > To hell with FreeBSD. We are replacing all of the systems with NT
> > > versions
> > > > of sendmail. And it works great! I neat little GUI makes sendmail and
> the
> > > > Exchange listservs easy to manage.The software may cost more, but in
> > > terms
> > > > of staff time, we're saving thousands, not to mention all the
> > > frustration.
> > > >
> > > > I read all the news on how unix is going to give microsoft a run for
> the
> > > > operating system market. I don't believe it for a second.
> > >
> > >
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