From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 3: 0:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts16.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E6F37B416 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 03:00:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from prayforwind.com ([199.243.128.11]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20011120110045.KEOG11528.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@prayforwind.com> for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:00:45 -0500 Received: (from gtabug@localhost) by prayforwind.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAKBARR02800 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:10:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gtabug) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:10:26 -0500 From: Steve Brown To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <20011120061026.A2767@prayforwind.com> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 I've not seen FreeBSD just crash without explanation ever in a year of use. I have seen netscape whack X twice, just type startx again. I found KDE stable but too big on this 300m PII, 4G partition amd now I use XFCE or TWM. It -is- less intuitive than Windows for sure; you'd better be interested in learning something about O/S and computers or you may be disappointed. Actually I'm one of those who tried it 'cause I wanted a choice other thane Microsoft (Had the 1'st incarnation of Win98 at the time and I grew sick of fdisk/formatting on a weekly basis) Cheers, Steve On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 10:54:05AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Steve writes: > > > If you're tired of Windows crashing you sure can! > > 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 two years > on Windows NT, and all of the Windows NT crashes were due to bad drivers. > > Unless he intends to run FreeBSD in its native, command-line mode, he should not > expect an increase in stability over Microsoft Windows, and he may experience > the opposite. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message