From: hwr@snert.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 09:16:26 GMT
sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes:
>hwr@snert.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) writes:
>> There is another thing to consider: 386bsd has a stable BSD-FFS and
>> stable networking, while there are bugs in the Linux efs and in their
>> networking.
>To the very best of my knowledge - and filesystems is What I Do on Linux
>- there are no known bugs in the efs, minix or xiafs file systems.
I didn't wanted to upset you, but in the last three days, I heard of at least
two Linuxers, who had trouble with their efs; Inodes couldn't be freeed,
fsck wasn't able to clean the fs.
>The networking point is well taken, though. More and more people seem
>to be reporting that they are now running Linux networking successfully,
Shure it's getting better. That's why I said '...has bugs ..' and not
' ... will always have a bug ..' or ' .. will always be buggier than ... '.
- Heiko