Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:33:05 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: "Steve Brown" <gtabug@prayforwind.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <013201c171b7$22d78cb0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <3BF9B12B.3D521A4D@nycap.rr.com> <0111191831240Q.60958@chip.wiegand.org> <20011119220243.A268@prayforwind.com> <009a01c171a9$4eedbee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120061026.A2767@prayforwind.com>
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Steve writes: > I've not seen FreeBSD just crash without explanation > ever in a year of use. Given the design of UNIX, I was extremely surprised to see the system crash with KDE. As I've said elsewhere, my best guess right now is that a bug in a video driver took the system down. I hope and assume that KDE or even XFree is not trying to bypass UNIX to perform privileged operations. > I have seen netscape whack X twice, just type > startx again. Yes, and if Windows crashes, just wait for it to reboot! > It -is- less intuitive than Windows for sure; you'd > better be interested in learning something about O/S > and computers or you may be disappointed. Agreed. That's why it is not a realistic alternative to Windows, except perhaps for geeks who like to learn about such things (as opposed to just using the computer as a tool). > Actually I'm one of those who tried it 'cause I > wanted a choice other thane Microsoft (Had the 1'st > incarnation of Win98 at the time and I grew sick > of fdisk/formatting on a weekly basis) And do you really think it is a realistic alternative? You should have tried Windows NT/2000 instead; it's a completely different OS, despite appearances, and it is rock stable. Unfortunately, it also costs several hundred dollars ... and if you need _server_ functionality (as opposed to a desktop), it offers no major advantages over FreeBSD, and a number of disadvantages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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