An official slightly off topic anouncement

[Erik Heil]

Hello
A few months of uptime is nothing in the Linux world.  I've seen boxes that 
I personally have here been up for over 380 days of uptime.  In fact, the 
only reason why it was rebooted was do to massive power failures which is 
obviously beyond my control.  Given the upgrade of kernels, you obviously 
can't count that against uptime.  Honestly, I can't recommend Windows for 
any sort of environment.  Security concerns are way to numerous.  Every 
week, you hear about potential problems that may allow people to take 
control of you're computer.  Any real operating system would not have been 
released with such glaring bugs.  Just demonstrates that Microsoft is not 
able to write stable software, and is more concerned with market share 
than with quality of the end product.

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:

> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:32:47 -0500
> From: Lorenzo Taylor <lorenzo at taylor.homelinux.net>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>     <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Subject: Re: An official slightly off topic anouncement
> 
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> I guess it's all a matter of how much a Windows XP user uses the
> computer.  I have heard that Windows XP can run for weeks at a time, but
> it never happened for me.  I once got XP to run 5 days straight, but
> that was a once-in-a-lifetime occurrance for me.  I guess it's because I
> kept my computer on all the time like I do now.  I was trying to run a
> very small web site with very few hits, an ftp server with just a few
> files on it and very few hits and a personal mail server just to get my
> own mail.  This was actually running on XP pro and rarely ran for 2 days
> before crashing and burning.  This is why I just can't recommend using
> Windows of any kind in a server environment.  My problems decreased when
> I switched from an aging computer to the latest AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with
> 512 MB of RAM which was pretty much top-of-the-line at the time, but
> they didn't go away completely.  At that point the system didn't bomb
> every time I tried to access the mail server's web page, but it still
> crashed about once every 2 days or sometimes more often.  And JAWS even
> brought that computer to a very slow crawl after it had been running for
> more than about 2 hours using about 95% of system resources.  My only
> remedy for this was to quit JAWS and restart it, which usually brought
> the system back to life for another 2 to 3 hours, but usually less the
> more I did it.
>
> Now on Linux I do a lot more.  I run actually 4 different web sites,
> still small with few hits but more of them and I also run an ftp server
> with many more and bigger files on it than I ever had running Windows
> XP.  I also run a personal mail server to send and receive my own mail
> on 3 addresses with the ability to add an unlimited additional number of
> addresses.  I also run an NFS server to allow me to copy my files to and
> from my laptop.  And not only do I run Speakup, but I also run Orca with
> the full Gnome GUI and sometimes I even use FireFox 3.0 with the latest
> Orca to browse the web.  It's quite nice, BTW.  After all this and more,
> it is still possible for my system to be up for 2 months or more without
> a single crash or other problem that necessitates a reboot.  And this
> was true on my old Athlon XP system with 512 MB of memory as well as it
> is true on my new AMD Athlon64x2 system with 1GB of ram.  Most reboots
> were caused by my desire to live on the bleeding edge and always upgrade
> to the latest kernel.  Of course to use the new kernel, the system must
> be rebooted.  But I have learned to tame down that desire somewhat and
> for the most part I just use Ubuntu and upgrade/reboot on the new
> release.  This means it may actually be possible to reboot my computer
> only once in a 6-month period.  WOW!  In Windows XP that was unheardof.
>
> Just my own personal experience for what it's worth, your mileage may
> vary.
>
> Lorenzo
> - --
> I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse.
> - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment)
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