From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 28 21:24:59 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA23091 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:24:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA23086 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:24:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA29395; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:54:52 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id PAA15146; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:54:52 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:54:52 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: EKuklajr@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stability of FreeBSD vs Linux 2.1.x / 2.2.1 Message-ID: <19990129155451.P8473@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from EKuklajr@aol.com on Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 09:10:06PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 28 January 1999 at 21:10:06 -0500, EKuklajr@aol.com wrote: > 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. I think that, compared to MS-DOS, both are incredibly stable. As Jason says, it's difficult to make accurate comparisons. One approach would be to port to both platforms: they're similar enough that this should be no more difficult than porting to just one. For *real* reliablity, run one machine with each. This would, incidentally, put you in the best position to ascertain the relative reliability of the systems for your particular application. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message