BSD restart

I have forgotten what setting makes the computer stop with the BSD, the 
current setting just restarts the computer without the BSD showing. 

On 4/14/2008 9:10 AM anon scribbled:

> I have forgotten what setting makes the computer stop with the BSD, the 
> current setting just restarts the computer without the BSD showing. 
> 
> 

David Bolt wrote:

> *BSD isn't Linux, just as Linux isn't *BSD. They do share a lot of
> similarities and, in most cases, a quick recompile[0] allows them to
> share software, but they aren't the same.

While I agree with what you are getting at, any kind of 'blah-blah', say
Ubuntu, isn't 'Linux' either, since linux is/ could be said to be/ the
linux kernel which makes up the gnu operating system or 'gnu linux' and
the ubuntu distribution is a derivative of Debian Gnu/Linux.

Those various gnulinuxes could be considered to be FOSS unix-like
OSes -- so one might want to let linux = foss/gnu unix-like OS.

Whereas and OTOH, the original BSD /was/ a Unix, a branch of unix, not a
non-unix FOSS, whereas Torvalds minix /wasn't/ a 'branch' of unix.

However and but... nowadays BSD refers to various BSD descendants,
freebsd, openbsd, and their derivatives which all could be considered
unix-like OSes or distributions-- and so could the non-FOSS OSes like
Apple's Mac X or SunOS & Solaris as bsd offspring.

The clarity of saying BSD isn't linux and linux isn't BSD is somewhat
fuzzy since whatever is bsd these days is unix-like and whatever is
linux is unix-like.  Lumping and splitting are both useful
organizational concepts whether you are talking about plants, animals,
or other diverse evolutions of kernels and operating systems.


--
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin

"David Bolt" <blacklist-me@davjam.org> wrote in message 
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> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, anon wrote:-
>
>>I have forgotten what setting makes the computer stop with the BSD, the
>>current setting just restarts the computer without the BSD showing.
>
> I guess you mean Blue Screen of Death, BSoD. If so, on my WinXP it's
> under System Properties[0] -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery.
> Unchecking the "Automatically restart" check-box turns off the
restart
> and lets you see the BSoD in full glory.
>
>
> [0] Found either through the Control Panel, right-clicking on the "My
> computer" icon and selecting "Properties" from the pop-up
menu, or just
> pressing the Windows and Pause/Break keys together.
>
> Regards,
>        David Bolt

Thank you THAT was the setting I wanted.

Had that setting on an old computer but forgot where to find it for a new 
computer.

To other posters - sorry about the BSD, I did not realize that it is now 
BSoD because of Linux.

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"Mike Easter" <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote in message 
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> David Bolt wrote:
>
>> *BSD isn't Linux, just as Linux isn't *BSD. They do share a lot of
>> similarities and, in most cases, a quick recompile[0] allows them to
>> share software, but they aren't the same.
>
> While I agree with what you are getting at, any kind of 'blah-blah', say
> Ubuntu, isn't 'Linux' either, since linux is/ could be said to be/ the
> linux kernel which makes up the gnu operating system or 'gnu linux' and
> the ubuntu distribution is a derivative of Debian Gnu/Linux.

SunOS up through Version 4 ( Solaris 2.4) was BSD (Berkeley Software 
Distribution) Unix, the only large scale commercial BSD implementation I am 
aware of now is Apple MacOS10+.

As I understand it all the original Linux Flavors were originally compiled 
from an open code release of BSD Unix, now known as freeBSD.. That starting 
point was not the BSD level of SunOS4 or MacOS10.