On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Robert M. Hyatt wrote:
>
> >
> > On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Timothy MacDonald wrote:
> > >
> > > > The local NT-head ( and decision maker ) here in the office is basing his
> > > > opinion of linux off a sidebar in Windows NT magazine. I think that his
> > > > information is biased and misleading, if not wrong, but I really don't know
> > > > enough about the Linux kernel to argue against it. I have included parts of
> > > > the article below. If someone more knowledgable than I could take a look and
> > > > tell me whether it is correct or not I really would appreciate it!
> > >
> > > This article sounds like Microsoft's standard FUD tactics, now applied
> > > to linux. It is really something of a joke, and we should all maintain
> > > our sense of humour as we read it instead of getting incensed. After
> > > all, until a few years ago, Microsoft couldn't even run its own website
> > > on an NT system. Linux, on the other hand, is the darling of the
> > > ISP/website provider community because it scales marvelously well under
> > > rather large loads and is for the most part rock solid stable, as in 100
> > > day uptimes under full load are a rather routine occurence. NT, on the
> > > other hand...
> >
> > goes down more often than Monica Lewinsky.
> >
> > Sorry Alan, but you make a good straight-man. I simply couldn't
> > resist, having several dozen NT boxes here. Our average Linux box
> > is up 100 times longer than our average NT box, 'on average'. :)
>
> Gee, that would be what, once a day? Say it ain't so! And I just
> dropped a gazillion dollars on NT Server for my mission critical SMP
> server...N(o)T!
>
> rgb
>
> Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
> Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
> Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
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>
It is so here, anyway. IE one of our secretaries has to reboot several
times a day. When one of her friends sends her an email with a big binary
attachment, and she uses netscape (for reasons unknown) or internet
explorer (again for reasons unknown) to read her mail (she 'pops' it over
from our Sun mail server) she generally blows out her mail capability and
has to reboot before she can read mail again. That is just _one_ case.
She now asks 'should I lewinsky" which is her way of "should I make it
go down and reboot?"
:)
I haven't had a linux crash in months, and this includes my quad xeon here
in my office where I run the latest of everything, including some of
Mingo's wild ideas...
sort of spoils me, I suppose. :)
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