> Stable? Linux? They've never had a stable version out there yet. I
> started messing with Linux at 0.96 or something like that. It'd crash
> consistantly on my 386DX/40, then I tried Slackware 2.3, then Slack
> 3.0.... Slack 3.0 would run on my 386DX/40, but took 10 minutes to
> give me a shell prompt, then when I asked it to do anything, it would
> spontaniously die. I've NEVER had FreeBSD do that EVER. Now, yanking
> the HD power cable did annoy it a bit, and the time I accidentally
> half-removed the ethernet card, but other than that its never crashed
> on any of my hardware.... From the 4 meg 386SX/16 (which ran as my
> webserver during a really sad part of the evolution of my ISP - the
> time when the real webserver pretended to die) to the 48-meg Cyrix
> 6x86/P166+...
>
> Now, my big question is why does Livingston support Cracker Jack Box
> Prize un!x (Linux) and not a stable business OS like FreeBSD? BSDI
> bins don't generally like to work for me, and when they do they are
> wasteful on CPU and memory..
>
> And, plus, FreeBSD doesn't put out a new "stable" release every two
> days... Things are actually tested and work when released.
>
> Thank you, Drive through
> Jacob Suter
>
Sorry I can't let this go :-)
I have here several Linux boxes, one has over 30 virtual domain, several
get lots of hits and one of the domains gets over a million hits per month.
This is on 1.2.13 Linux, this is the uptime:
kadamski@emil:~$ uptime
10:16pm up 103 days, 7:24, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.18, 0.10
An other is the main mail/radius host, this one is running 2.06, the
uptime is:
kadamski@white:~$ uptime
10:17pm up 106 days, 7:58, 6 users, load average: 0.11, 0.12, 0.11
One more, the news server, same as above:
kadamski@niebo:~ $ uptime
10:18pm up 91 days, 8:49, 1 user, load average: 0.49, 0.19, 0.11
The reboots were for upgrades.
If this is not stable then I don't know what is.
Krzysztof