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Date:      Sat, 3 Mar 2007 14:02:15 +0100 (CET)
From:      Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: defrag
Message-ID:  <esbrkn$30u3$4@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net>
References:  <539c60b90703010849x33dd4bbbt8f6ca6aa0c8e83a0@mail.gmail.com> <45E7070E.9050506@daleco.biz> <45E70B8C.8010602@daleco.biz> <539c60b90703011250y7ad5b475v936b4d357549d50e@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:50:44 -0700 Steve Franks wrote:

> Excellent!  Never had that one answered.  I've gone down the typical
> road of being an MS booster ("It doesn't take 10 hours to set up and
> configure") to experiencing glee when I find yet another way FBSD
> kicks the crap out of MS.  Why?  Because I've grown up, and learned
> that 2 hours time spent *reading* and configuring is way better than 2
> days time spent when the system crashes in the middle of the workweek
> - bottom line, BSD is cheaper before, during, and after installation.
> Probably by a factor of 10 for me over the last 10 years.  As I write
> this, I'm on a MS laptop that has degraded to the point where any disk
> acess takes 10 seconds before the display updates (but not from the
> shell - so not a defrag issue, just a screwed registry or something).
> I used to reinstall my entire MS server every 6 months, on average...

Hence the three Rs of MS support.

Regards
Chris



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