[Gllug] Whinge

[Jon Masters]

On 30 Aug 2001 14:30:33 +0100, Dan Kolb wrote:

> Chances are, of course, that a lot of novices haven't heard of
> Debian.

That's their problem.

> I'm sure there were problems with Linux (kernel), in that it caused
> various data corruption in some circumstances.

File system corruption is not the same though - I wasn't referring to
kernel induced problems...and anyway, how many *production*
distributions with dangerous kernels do you know of causing any
corruption recently?

> And yet you're still using Linux after these problems? Why?

If you were to stick to purely "production" kernels you probably
wouldn't have these problems. The only filesystem corruption I have
suffered in recent memory is due to loopback device stuff - which most
novice users would not know anything about to start with.

> Why didn't you switch to, say, FreeBSD

Personally? I would not switch due to licensing, but that's me.

--jcm



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