thoughts on UNIX and older systems

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sun Jan 17 10:12:36 1999

<None. I haven't seen an NT box up for months at a time without
<a reboot due to something trivial like a network change that can be done
<with a Unix box without a reboot.

Well I have. Current up time for the three NT 3.51 servers I live with
at work is over 6months. We do however have things like memory leaks from
Cold Fusion's OBDC driver that forces the running of a batch job every night
to shut that down and restart the one peice. Often the OS gets blamed for
cranky apps.

<> We're switching to Linux at work only because there's more software
<> available, and we have more knowledge available for Linux than BSD.
<
<Sounds reasonable... I've been using FreeBSD with 6+ months
<uptime on web servers (only rebooted because of equipment moves in the lab)

This thread is interesting to me (though OT for Classiccmp) as I plan to
introduce a FreeBSD(or linux, slakware, redhat or debian) and not haveing
much unix expereince it's an interest to me.

Personally a VMS node suits my liking.

Allison
Received on Sun Jan 17 1999 - 10:12:36 GMT

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