On Friday 20 Mar 2009, Dinesh A. Joshi wrote: > Stability is RELATIVE. I tried Sarge a LONG time ago and IT SUCKED! > Why? Simply because it didn't support my hardware. You cannot call > such a distribution STABLE on my hardware, can you? > > Also, stability includes a feature called as GRACEFUL FAILURE. Do > you zealots understand what it means? Sarge's kernel was constantly > panicking. har har... So much for "stability".
You got it in the first para. Flaky hardware. sarge installed 4 years ago and still running on atleast 20 boxes - all extremely critical. > FreeBSD kicks its > arse when it comes to "stability". Without most of the other hardware components working. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
