From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 07:53:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2DE516A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 07:53:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E10443D1D for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 07:53:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1107.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id A4F861C0008B for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:53:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1107.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 850341C00089 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:53:23 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050213075323544.850341C00089@mwinf1107.wanadoo.fr Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:53:23 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <308024811.20050213085323@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050213035851.GV8619@alzatex.com> References: <200502112313.28082.hindrich@worldchat.com> <823196404.20050212105644@wanadoo.fr> <420DE422.3020102@wanadoo.es> <1546398643.20050212123202@wanadoo.fr> <420E0164.7090300@wanadoo.es> <27964692.20050212160046@wanadoo.fr> <20050213035851.GV8619@alzatex.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Freebsd vs. linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 07:53:24 -0000 Loren M. Lang writes: > That's not true in my expeirence, I still see the blue screen > occassionally on both WinNT 4.0 and 2K systems. Then you have bad device drivers, or you are running software with OS privileges that contains bugs. > Most of the time though the 2K machine just reboots without warning. Look for common characteristics of the situations in which you observe a reboot (especially particular programs running, or particular hardware devices in use). > Also, my brother is constantly telling my how he fixed his WinXP > machine by rebooting it. That may not be a blue screen, but it's still > not good. It's a matter of user education; it has nothing to do with the OS. I haven't used systmatic rebooting to fix problems since the 16-bit Windows 3.x (the old Windows 9x family of operating systems could get stuck that way, but I went directly to NT myself and never bothered to waste my time with Windows 95). -- Anthony