Re: RH5.0 stability compared to Windows NT4?

[Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Hugo Rabson wrote:
> Do you lose your data less often & when you do lose it do you take as long
> to recover it as you did under NT?
> 
> Is your data loss more often the result of a buggy application than a result
> of a problem with RedHat?

Whenever I venture back to Windows 95 and try to use Word 97 I am
constantly besieged by "This Application has done something illegal, click
HERE to close the application" and dumped back to Win95.

I have *NEVER* run into such a problem with Applix under Red Hat Linux.

The company I work for does the administrative computing for about 300
schools in Louisiana and Mississippi, using -- guess what -- Linux
servers (well, actually about half of them are still Unix or Xenix, but
those are slowly being converted over rather than pay SCO's outrageous
upgrade fees). The ONLY time we've ever had data loss is due to user
error (i.e. the equivalent of typing "rm stu9798.dat :-} ). We have been
quite pleased with the stability of our Linux servers -- they stay up 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, for months at a time between downtime (and
usually downtime is caused only when the power goes out). I understand
that NT becomes very unstable if you don't reboot it once a week. We have
had no such problems, even on trashy or outdated hardware that NT would
only sniff at (e.g. a 33mhz 486 with 16mb of memory). 

Eric Lee Green   [EMAIL PROTECTED]          Executive Consultants
Systems Specialist               Educational Administration Solutions
             See http://members.tripod.com/~e_l_green


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