From: jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov () Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux Date: 27 Apr 1993 21:12:45 GMT
In article <willmore.735940750@beijing.gis.iastate.edu> willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore) writes:
>jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
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>What color is the sky in your world? Iowa State University is a DEC house
>and; therefore, uses ULTRIX. Linux has years to go before it can 'walk the
>walk' with full blown production Unixes like the ones above. If you think
>otherwise, you haven't been sitting on the edge of the Linux releases and
>living with uptimes in the hours and *sometimes* days.
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>I'm just looking around our network here for an example or two. Ok, here's
>a ReadOnly NFS server that's been up since Oct 1 1992. There are several
>more here with times in Nov and Dec '92. Anyone have a Linux system *that*
>stable? If you do, you're running .95 or earlier and therefor having that
>system up proves nothing about the stability of the current release of
>Linux.
Hmmm...kinda hard for me to have an "uptime" dating back to Oct of last year,
I've been running Linux 0.99p7 since it came out, and the only down time
was when I took it down was to install OS/2 2.0. Otherwise its been up and
running X, TCP/IP, NFS, etc... and developing code to do some serious number
crunching (and doing some serious number crunching)...So far Linux has
been about as stable as any other UNIX I've dealt with (SUNOS, AIX, HP-UX).
John