Hey, I answered the original question and added a comment about mandrake 8.1
I cant claim that uptime. 2 reasons, 1. I upgrade and change machines for fun. 2. I dont have access to even the ability to have an UPS. Yes, my mud is run on walkabout, and that is redhat and before we upgraded to 7.2 it was over 200 days too. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Nyhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 10:12 PM Subject: RE: Compiling under Mandrake Linux > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:09:48-(~) uptime > 8:09PM up 43 days, 3:14, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:09:51-(~) uname > FreeBSD > > Boot time 13 seconds, and user base of erm 4 *cackles* > (Dual PIII 500, 1gb PC100 Ram, 4 9.1 Seagate SCSI hard drives, and for a > whooping grand finally on-board video with 4 megs of ram shared) > > I may lose in uptime, but I win in pc power for it being my tinker server > box. > PNyhan A+ N+ CCNA CCDA > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason > Gauthier > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 7:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Compiling under Mandrake Linux > > > > > > One simple reason, version 8.1 has EXT3 installed. a Journaling File > > System(JFS) which provides fast reboots (no more scan disk or > > fsck) and a > > well robust system. > > > > Don't need to fsck if you don't crash your OS :) > My machine goes from lilo: to login: in 20 seconds. > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom > > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom >

