From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 2:39:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-105.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E50F37B405 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 02:39:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F184666EEE; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 02:39:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 02:39:48 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: Steve Brown , Chip , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <20011120023948.A92409@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3BF9B12B.3D521A4D@nycap.rr.com> <0111191831240Q.60958@chip.wiegand.org> <20011119220243.A268@prayforwind.com> <009a01c171a9$4eedbee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <009a01c171a9$4eedbee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@atkielski.com on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 10:54:05AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 10:54:05AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Steve writes: >=20 > > If you're tired of Windows crashing you sure can! >=20 > The KDE environment under FreeBSD stalled or crashed on me nearly half a = dozen > times in one day. That's about as many crashes as I've experienced in tw= o years > on Windows NT, and all of the Windows NT crashes were due to bad drivers. >=20 > Unless he intends to run FreeBSD in its native, command-line mode, he sho= uld not > expect an increase in stability over Microsoft Windows, and he may experi= ence > the opposite. This isn't a fair statement; there are many many stable window managers on FreeBSD. Even though KDE and GNOME (allegedly) aren't stable, there are lots of remaining alternatives before you have to resort to the "native, command-line mode". Kris --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7+jLzWry0BWjoQKURAntEAJ9A9t1Tn/JhNF0HfMLycEBEurVkawCg+B19 6JXHh15fNoTX/7PNGDwp23w= =2wJI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message