On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 18:07 -0700, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Well, I've found that 9.3 is much better then 9.2. With 9.2 we had issue where it had a strange bug where it would take 15-25 minutes to reboot because EVERYTIME it booted the system it wanted to run reiserfsck against the 1.8T data partition.. didn't matter what
That's very odd. And I guess it proves the point of some other posters here, that sometimes some people have bugs that others never ever see. Because I've never seen this one. 9.2 has been very smooth for me, on the balance.
I don't know why some would have issue and some do not. I'm just thankful that 9.3 fixed that bug.. because some of the PHB's were talking Gentoo. I think I'd quit prior to that. :)
Yuck. Gentoo is never something I'd consider. I ran FreeBSD on a box at home for a time. Great idea. Optimized software and all that, but when the rubber meets the road, it's not such a good idea. For example, I went to install OpenOffice.org from ports. After downloading 20-some libraries it spent the next hour compiling the software. Needless to say the part I was least happy about wasn't the hour of compilation. It was the fact that suddenly I had 20 libraries I may never need sitting on my machine taking up space. I'll always prefer binary packaging. Preston