Subject: Re: Anecdote time
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 04/30/2001 10:48:33
In message <200104301538.f3UFcx001417@trinity.ihack.net>, "Charles M. Hannum" w
rites:
[snip]
I wanted to play with Caldera once, and I really liked the installer; it was
very pretty, and it was fun playing tetris.
Then I rebooted, and the system didn't work. Lots of programs getting segv's.
Tried again. Same problem.
Booted from CD, poked around, noticed that whole boatloads of system binaries
were corrupt.
So, I tried to install NetBSD. Got pages and pages of error messages about
CD-ROM failing in strange ways, install aborted. Swapped CD-ROM, everything
went fine.
To this day, NetBSD is one of the systems I use to test hardware. It's not
just the normal "if this doesn't work, something must be wrong with the
hardware"; it's that if NetBSD doesn't work, it's very likely to tell me
*why*.
-s