The convincer for me was Wes Peters' 'Daemon's Advocate' article. He even personally responded to some of my questions. He pointed out that many of the same factors that make a good server, make a good workstation. The article was May 99, BTW. Anyway, that convinced me to give it a try, and I've never looked back. Is it as bleeding edge as Linux? No, but my Linux system became unmaintainable and incoherent very quickly. Interestingly, a problem with unmounting CDroms under Mandrake hosed my filesystem twice in a row, and that was it... I wanted the vaunted FreeBSD stability. That fast, async filesystem wasn't much good when I lost data. That's funny. I could have sworn only servers care about reliability and stability, not desktops.... jcm -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jonathon McKitrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
