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Date:      Thu, 05 Nov 1998 13:29:24 -0500
From:      Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>
To:        Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: enough about linux and microshit
Message-ID:  <4.1.19981105132823.00b3a4e0@genesis.ispace.com>
In-Reply-To: <3641930C.21A69E98@airnet.net>
References:  <Message from beef@cybertouch.org    of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 01:46:00 EST." <199811040647.BAA22068@freedom.cybertouch.org> <4.1.19981104192449.00a89cf0@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981105004234.00a89e00@genesis.ispace.com>

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At 05:59 AM 11/5/98 -0600, Kris Kirby wrote:
>Drew Baxter wrote:
>> Loki is:
>> 12:45AM  up 9 days,  9:03, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>> 
>> Odin is (My Solaris X86 POS):
>> 12:44am  up 12 day(s),  8:45,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.01
>> 
>> As it goes, my NT box has a high uptime, but freakishly crashed the other
>> day.  It's because it doesn't do anything.. I do make world once every week
>> or two, so the FreeBSD box doesn't last long.
>
>I feel so cheated. After I sent out that message and was composing
>another, my machine Page Fault'd and rebooted. Beware of overclocking,
>processor fans, and especially flaky hardware. Thos will kill a decent
>FBSD system any day. They can make a great UN*X, but the machine is only
>as good as the hardware. :-/ My next machine *won't* be cheap parts.
>-- 
>Kris Kirby 
>UAH Mail <kirbyk@email.uah.edu> UAH CS <kkirby@cs.uah.edu>
>Home     <kris@airnet.net>      WWW <nomurphy@hotmail.com>
>-------------------------------------------
>TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.

My Solaris box is a converted CTX from Damark.. We won't get into that.

The FreeBSD box is a PII-333 (boxed) on a Supermicro P6SBA in a SC701A
case, running at regular clock.. It can do a kernel in a little under 2
minutes, really nice machine.


---
Drew "Droobie" Baxter
Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM)
OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275
http://www.droo.orland.me.us
My Latest Kernel: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (ONEEX) #14: Mon Oct 19 22:36:58 EDT 1998


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