On 5/6/05, Preston Crawford
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.
Yeah. I kind of figured no one had seen this problem because I posted to the list a couple times about it and no one responded. :) Doesn't matter now.. 9.2 is a bad memory for me.
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.
We tested FreeBSD with the custom software we are build and Linux was about 30% faster... which hacked off one of my co-workers who is a freeBSD person. *laugh* One can do pkgs with Gentoo but then what would be the point to using it? If one uses the pkgs then it's just an infant Linux distro with a way smaller userbase the SUSE or RH. :) -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."