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From: Borja Marcos borjam@we....
Subject: [9fans] DMR's OS :(
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 09:21:44 +0100 (MET)

> 
> when i was on sabbatical the university installed linux on the PC on my desk.
> it crashed regularly, several times a week. the netscape on it crashed at least
> several times as often; i never enabled java on it.  everyone else in the department
> said that i was crazy; linux was very stable, etc. etc.  they changed hardware,
> it made no difference.  i sat down at their desks and crashed their machines,
> always by doing nothing more than running xterm and netscape to look at
> ordinary things.  a friend of mine sat at my desk, typed a single url to her own
> perfectly sane home page, and hung the machine completely.

> 	I think you had a hardware problem, or you were using
an experimental version. Some friends use Linux for work, as
HTTP server, DNS... and I have seen uptimes in excess of months. In
fact, those are their most stable machines. (The others have MS operating
systems).

	And my experience with FreeBSD (which I prefer to Linux) has also
been excellent. I have had no problems. I can recall it only crashed once,
when I was trying a "snapshot" of a development branch. 

	Regarding Linux, there are too many "distributions" and
it is too chaotic. But, anyway, it works.


	Borja.


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