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From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com>
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Subject: Opinions again
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> 
> >From The Desk Of "Marty Leisner" :
> > I really get miffed hearing people laud the robustness of NT and OS/2...I 
> > found both pale to current copies of linux and FreeBSD.
> > 
> 
> Well, it depends on  your point of view. Yes Linux and FreeBSD are probably
> more robust than NT or OS/2 however from a DOS and Win3.1 point of view
> NT is rock solid 8)
> 
> 
> 	Regards,
> 	Amancio

FreeBSD is more robust than Linux, Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX.
I'm running OS/2, AIX, Win/NT, FreeBSD, Linux.  The OS/2 problem as far as
robustness is the Presentation Manager single input queue problem -- which
looks like it's Fixed (er, well worked around) in the latest Fixpack (17).

Realistically, I've had the best reliability with FreeBSD.
The worst was HP-UX. (The patch of the week)  SunOS had the "you want us
to fix WHAT... Use Solaris" problem.

At least VAX/VMS used to have a timely patch service.

Bill

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