Re: [TCLUG:16719] The NVidia license

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Daniel Taylor wrote:
> Yep, I take everything on the i-net with a grain of salt.
> 
> I have however personally had admin responsibility for
> Linux boxes (including this one) that have regularly
> exceeded 60 days. This very box was at ~65 days when 
> I decided to redo my ext2 filesystems as reiserfs 
> (yes, it does seem to work nicely). This 65 day uptime
> included _many_ software upgrades and basic reconfigurations.
> I had a box run almost a year on 1.0.9 before I shut it down to
> upgrade it to upgrade to 1.2. It was doing real work serving as
> a dialup comm server, gopher, and web server. I have seen no 
> indication that any later version is less stable.
> 
> I have heard of noone administering NT who would say 
> that they could claim the same thing.
> 

  4:19pm  up 209 days,  1:26,  3 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

production DNS server.... so it's been through many bind upgrades, etc. :)

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