Freebsd vs. linux

[Anthony Atkielski]

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