Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 09:30:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: Pedro Timoteo <deh@meganet.pt>, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: top uptime! Message-ID: <20010421093009.M72002@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104201102580.17317-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>; from reed@reedmedia.net on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:10:35AM -0700 References: <0104201829431V.20864@dehumanizer.meganet.pt> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104201102580.17317-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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On Friday, 20 April 2001 at 11:10:35 -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Pedro Timoteo wrote: > >>> It's very interesting to note which OS is *not* listed. >> >> I don't want to be TOO annoying, but could it be because the linux kernel 2.4 >> is about 4 months old, and since then most people have upgraded to it, >> ruining their uptimes? > > That doesn't make sense. If that was the case, then what about FreeBSD > people upgrading their FreeBSD kernels to the latest (and ruining their > uptimes)? Of course. >> I'm not saying that Linux is more stable (I know it isn't, I use both), but >> in this case I don't think the stability of Linux is fairly shown here. > > I ran Linux 2.0.36 for 497 days. It had some known 497-day bug (jiffy > problem?) that crashed it with a kernel panic. Is it possible that this bug was fixed less than 595 days ago? That seems to be the only sensible explanation I can find for Linux' complete absence from this list. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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