On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Jerome Tan wrote:

> > And don't redefine STABILITY as it is commonly understood to
> > be.  OS stability refers to how resistant it is to crashes.
> > Security, bootup speed, and hibernation abilities have nothing
> > to do with the definition.  If you took the time to read my
> > post carefully, you'd see that I am not attempting to mix up
> > the two, rather it is your post that does.
> >
> OS stability may mean how resistant it is to crashes, but the true measure
> is how long it can run without rebooting.

This i do not particularly agree with. Any OS that does absolutely nothing
will run forever, assuming no hardware or power problems occur.  The true
measure of robustness is running a server at full load (database, proxy,
smtp, using full VM, even running out of memory etc) for the longest
possible time.


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