From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 28 18:10:45 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA28856 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:10:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from imo21.mx.aol.com (imo21.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA28849 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:10:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from EKuklajr@aol.com) From: EKuklajr@aol.com Received: from EKuklajr@aol.com by imo21.mx.aol.com (IMOv18.1) id JFPBa07792 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:10:06 +1900 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:10:06 EST To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Stability of FreeBSD vs Linux 2.1.x / 2.2.1 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 38 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My company is looking into re-writing our MS-DOS application as a Unix application and i am seriously considering Open source projects such as FreeBSD and Linux as our workstation OS. Is there any study or data indicating which release is the most stable for our Intel Pentium platforms? Or are they equivalent? Stability is important as our machines are toxic gas monitors (running 24/7/365), and reliability is very VERY important. Thankyou, Edward D. Kukla, Jr. edk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message