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On 7/14/05, Allen
You'd be regretting that every day when you first tried to update lol. A few months ago they had a TELNET problem or something along those lines that form what I heard needed a Kernel up or reboot. One fo the two.
Free BSD is great for servers if you already use it, but after using Linux, you won't want to. The hardware support blows, sort of like the Solaris thing does.
lol. Hardware support, I could probably write every device Solaris supports on the inside of a coke can in finger paint.
Not really. I have 12 fairly large USENET servers running FreeBSD 4.9 and they've been up and available for months... no issues. I have serveral other FreeBSD servers doing various jobs.. along with quite a few Solaris 2.9 machines. Everything has it's place and Linux can not solve every issue... don't get me wrong .. I love Linux and have for going on 10 years but the issues in 9.2 were real and did piss me right off. I just don't have time to muck about with stuff. When I installed FC3 an the issue wasn't there.. when I installed Gentoo and the issue was there... I came to the conclusion that it was 9.2. I've seen half-baked releases from SUSE in the last 10 years. It's not like every release is super polished and has absolutely nothing wrong with it. They are better then most I would say, but by no means perfect. As far as hardware support.. not a problem. I build machines to run OS's .. I've done this since I started use Linux / UNIX. I don't just go buy an eMachine and think it should just work. I do the leg work prior to that so I don't have to add to my grey hair. ;) In any event.. 9.3 works great. I won't be upgrading these machines until 9.3 gets EOL'ed anyway. So it's all good. :) - Ben -- "There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend religious faith."