From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 5 15:51:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA24386 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:51:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA24373 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:51:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 19022 on Thu, 6 Feb 1997 00:47:03 +0100; id AAA19022 efrom: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl; eto: UNKNOWN Received: (from peter@localhost) by grendel.IAEhv.nl (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA00861; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 02:06:34 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 02:06:33 +0100 From: peter@hw.nl (Peter Korsten) To: BigDaddy@LiveNet.Net (Joseph I. Arias) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing from DOS partition References: <199702011809.NAA09929@Clifford.LiveNet.Net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.58-PL15 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from J Wunsch on Feb 1, 1997 21:30:10 +0100 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch shared with us: > As Joseph I. Arias wrote: > > > Should I download FreeBSD 2.2? I'm a beginger to Unix is 2.2 stable enough > > for me to pratic on? > > It's probably 20 times more stable than Win 3.1, and 5 times more > stable than Win 95. :-) I disagree. It's far more stable than that. It did help, though, to throw the OPTI-087 ISA video board out and replace it with a S3 PCI. Now Windows 95 doesn't hang at random when a rectangle pops up. But a my current and my previous job, FreeBSD is *very* stable, unless you're doing very heavy ISP stuff. We reboot our machines once a month, just out of habit. > No offense intended, but i think somebody who's going to be serious > about ISP business won't even install a DOS partition at all first. > Waste of space. You even didn't learn how to give your mail a subject > line yet... how are you going to teach your customers about Internet > Netiquette? Said previous employer, an ISP, just bought a box with 30 ISDN/V34 connections. Primary rate in, 100 Mbit Ehternet out. That thing costs almost 1,5 as much as I earn in a year, before taxes. You simply can't compete, money-wise and knowledge-wise (concerning system maintainance etc.) with the established ISP's. Even if you could throw in a couple of 100,000's, you would have a hard time. - Peter -- Peter Korsten | peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl (UUCP) | peterk@IAEhv.nl C/C++/Perl/Java hacker