Re: [plug] OT: Linux Dream Machine

[Daniel O. Escasa]

Sabi ni Edwin noong Mon, 24 Apr 2000 07:12:49 -0700 (PDT)

> I dream linux 'cuz I can run with cheaper hardware
> with better reliability.

I won't argue with the cheaper hardware part of the equation, but I'll contest
the better reliability. Linux is less than 10 years old -- can anyone point to a
Linux machine that has been running non-stop for 10 years? On the other hand,
there are mainframes that haven't rebooted -- I believe IBM calls it Initial
Program Load, or IPL -- in over 20 years. Compaq has customers, inherited from
Digital Equipment Corp, whose Alpha servers running OpenVMS likewise have been
running non-stop from the day they bought them from Digital.

Mabuhay.

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