Hardware plays a big role in OS reliability and security. A few years back there was a report that IBM had a mainframe running continously for 7 years. When VM has the ability to do VM failover then the uptime will rise dramatically on x86 platforms. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy R Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Main Discussion List for KPLUG" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Security, Reliability, and the OS Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:31:58 -0800
> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 06:31:23PM -0600, Gabriel Sechan spake thusly: > > Anything humanity has ever made, or will ever make, is unreliable. People > > Nonsense. VMS is pretty darn reliable. As are a lot of embedded OS's. We > hear funny stories but overall the software in spacecraft and aircraft are > pretty darn reliable too. You only have experience with the current state > of the art in consumer grade stuff. It can be a lot better. Let's not be > so skeptical that we give up all hope and stop asking for better. > > -- > Tracy Reed > http://ultraviolet.org > This message is cryptographically signed for your protection. > Info: http://copilotconsulting.com/sig << 1.2.dat >> -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
