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I don't have an issue with NT's reliability in all cases. It just depends
on what's running on the box.
Most instabilities I have experienced are the result of multiple variables
(drivers, software, service patch, etc.).
If you're lucky and have a good mix you will see a reliable system (I have).
But in my experience the majority of systems, particularly workstations do
not share that success.
I single out workstations specifically to point out that servers are less
prone to being reliable once they are up and running because they are
changed infrequently. We tend to add/delete/change frequently on our
workstations.
That said I don't have any of these like issues with Linux. If I have an
unstable subsystem it affects the subsystem not the entire box and I can
back it out and try something else relatively painlessly.
srm
-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net
[mailto:plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net]On Behalf Of
Gregory.Josephs@phila.gov
Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 9:44 AM
To: Plug@lists.nothinbut.net
Subject: [Plug] RE: NT Rant
Vale.Kenny@vanguard.com wrote:
> I use my Linux system about 20-25 hours a week, and I use my NT system
about
> 3-4 hours a week. Of that time less than 1% of the time on the Linux box
is
> spent in reboots, and 10% in reboots of the NT box. Because NT is such a
> complete *HOG*, I have to run it on a Pentium II system with a sh1tload of
RAM
> and disk space. My Linux system is running on a Pentium 90 system, with
half
> the RAM, and slower drives. I mean, yeah, it still runs as fast as the NT
> system, but I can only imagine it on the Pentium II. But I have to keep
the
> damn NT, to use it for testing. Pisses me off.
> Just a small rant..
> V
I don't have a Linux system of my own (yet), so I use NTW4.0 five days a
week.
Frankly, I haven't had
a "blue screen of death" in over a month now, and this is typical. Of
course, I
turn it off at the end of
each day - for security, and after all, we all know it won't run for a full
week
without crashing, so why
bang my head on a brick wall?
Curiously, what seems to bring the crashes on most reliably is anything
involving the diskette drive -
especially diskcopy.
Others may get different mileage.
GregJ
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