Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:00:40 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: San Jose Mercury News Message-ID: <4.1.19990222195914.03df0f10@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990222134234.0400ce70@mail.lariat.org> References: <19990222144214.B25682@netmonger.net> <000301be5e61$32179ec0$6a6c4cd1@jackv.pacbell.net> <000301be5e61$32179ec0$6a6c4cd1@jackv.pacbell.net>
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At 03:44 PM 2/22/99 , Brett Glass wrote: >At 02:42 PM 2/22/99 -0500, Christopher Masto wrote: > >>Does it ever occur to these reporters that Linux's success just might >>have something to do with the fact that Microsoft products simply do >>not work, and Linux does? > >If it were merely that, then FreeBSD would be equally successful -- >more successful, in fact, as it it smore reliable. Timing, PR, and >advocacy (though done largely by fanatics) allowed Linux to gain a >foothold and eclipse the technologically superior BSD derivatives. One of the MAJOR attractive items of Linux is that it can run for months and years without a reboot.. My NT machine needs a good boot rather often, but not as much as my Win95 machine, which can run less than a day on the boot.. Stability is everything.. Noone can access network services if the machine is always being rebooted, and it takes 5-20 minutes to do it at that. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP DSS/1024 Public Key ID: 0x409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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