Re: Freebsd vs. linux

From: Anthony Atkielski (atkielski.anthony_at_wanadoo.fr)
Date: 02/13/05

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    Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:53:23 +0100
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    Loren M. Lang writes:

    > That's not true in my expeirence, I still see the blue screen
    > occassionally on both WinNT 4.0 and 2K systems.

    Then you have bad device drivers, or you are running software with OS
    privileges that contains bugs.

    > Most of the time though the 2K machine just reboots without warning.

    Look for common characteristics of the situations in which you observe a
    reboot (especially particular programs running, or particular hardware
    devices in use).

    > Also, my brother is constantly telling my how he fixed his WinXP
    > machine by rebooting it. That may not be a blue screen, but it's still
    > not good.

    It's a matter of user education; it has nothing to do with the OS. I
    haven't used systmatic rebooting to fix problems since the 16-bit
    Windows 3.x (the old Windows 9x family of operating systems could get
    stuck that way, but I went directly to NT myself and never bothered to
    waste my time with Windows 95). 

    -- 
Anthony
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