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Date:      Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:01:48 -0800
From:      "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Freebsd vs. linux
Message-ID:  <20050213040148.GW8619@alzatex.com>
In-Reply-To: <27964692.20050212160046@wanadoo.fr>
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On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 04:00:46PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Ramiro Aceves writes:
> 
> > Yes, but some OSes are famous for their "blue screens"
> 
> None that I'm aware of.  Blue screens are more of a popular myth
> invented by people who hate Microsoft than a reality.  I saw occasional
> BSODs long ago when there were driver problems or hardware problems on
> servers, but I haven't seen a blue screen in years now.
> 
> > One day FreeBSD 5.3 completely crashed when doing something in X-window
> > System on an old pentium 75MHz.
> 
> I've had FreeBSD hang while trying to use X servers, but I never could
> establish whether the OS itself had frozen or whether it was just the
> interface.  It happened often enough that it was one of the reasons why
> I abandoned any attempt to use a GUI.

Whenever this happens I can always ssh in and kill X from another
machine if it's just X hanging and not the system.  Now X can still kill
the whole machine since it's directly accessing the hardware, but
usually the system is still running fine.

>
<snip>
> -- 
> Anthony
> 
> 
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-- 
I sense much NT in you.
NT leads to Bluescreen.
Bluescreen leads to downtime.
Downtime leads to suffering.
NT is the path to the darkside.
Powerful Unix is.

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