From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Apr 20 17: 0:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 569DD37B423 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:00:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id F384A6ACBA; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 09:30:09 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 09:30:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Cc: Pedro Timoteo , advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: top uptime! Message-ID: <20010421093009.M72002@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <0104201829431V.20864@dehumanizer.meganet.pt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from reed@reedmedia.net on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:10:35AM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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