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From: "Pedro Giffuni S." <giffunip@asme.org>
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(redirected to chat. It was sort of exagerated to send this to hackers
and bugs! )

Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote:
> 
> Are there any statistics to support the claim that FreeBSD is one of the
> worlds most stable Operating Systems?

I don't think so, FreeBSD is a young project: There are some boxes that
are have worked faithfully since long before (notably VM/CMS, VMS, and
probably Cray boxes) that will run fine until year 2000. Many times this
"uptime" records are the result of the longetivity of their system
maintainers :-).

	Pedro.