Yes sir! I have had similar experiences with OpenBSD since 3.0 (loss of power,
hack attempts, abuse, etc) and I've got an OpenBSD machine running my qmail
server since '99 !!
I try to explain to my Linux friends just how great a system OpenBSD really
is and some people just don't get it! I am MUCH more productive because I can
go and do more work and a higher quality of work without having to tend to or
keep checking up on a "fragile" box - I've even had an OpenBSD box run strong
with a bad memory bank (that Linux would not install on)!
Maybe its just me and maybe its just a fluke but something else I've noticed
for the past 8 years is that the hard drives tend to last MUCH longer in my
OpenBSD boxes (running NFS, database, desktop, qmail server,
firewall/proxy/spamd server, etc). I know that's totally unscientific but its
what I've observed on OpenBSD boxes that actually run at a MUCH higher load
than my Linux boxes - go figure...
Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all.
"Funny" story..
At home I installed OpenBSD on some old i386 hardware years ago. Since I do a
lot of work at home I have a small homenetwork. From time to time I upgrade
hardware, and sometimes I change the disks as well, when I get some bigger ones.
Anyway, my old OpenBSD installation has been upgraded twice, yes I neglected
it. It has been moved physically from different machines, from Intel onto AMD,
and the other way around. It has even been moved from disk to disk, using a
homemade tar and gtar solution. It has been turned off regulary, without using
halt or shutdown. It has been running without shutdown months at a time, and it
has suffered different kinds of physically abuse when I moved from one house to
another. It has suffered all kind of crack attempts - none succesfull. It has
been used as a fileserver on nfs, as a dhcp server, as a firewall, as a
database server, and a lot of other stuff. At last I could not remember
anything about how it actually was running. Yesterday it suffered a powersupply
failure, but it didn't even grunt.
In all that time, during all that suffering, it did no go down even once. It
never ever suffered any dataloss from the many physically shutdowns. It was as
stable as a solid rock.
Well all things come to an end, so I finally decided to kill it slowly by
night, removing all "important" files, doing a fresh install of 4.0 and
exspecting the same rock solid performance.
Now, besides the work I do with BSD, sometimes I work with GNU/Linux as well. I
had to mess a bit with a Debian box, and while it was open I noticed that I had
switched the primary and secondary IDE cabels. It doesn't matter ofcourse, the
machine boots anyway, buuut I like it to be where it should be, primary master
on the primary cabel, so I switched the cabels. What happened? Well, the
machine didn't want to boot - go figured!! ;-) Had that been my old OpenBSD
installation I would exspect it to have booted off the floppy controller by
mistake and I wouldn't even notice! ;-)))
Rico.
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