All I know is that my Linux internet gateway server accumulated an uptime of 11 months before a severe thunderstorm finally hung a couple of processes. Our NT corporate server, on the other hand, has caused us nothing but grief. But here's the kicker. The Linux is running on a common, ordinary Gateway p2-266. NT is on a Hewlett-Packard Netserver running 39GB of raid-5. So the NT should be more reliable, right? Hmmm. Maybe NT5/win2k will clean up M$ act, but for me, Linux has proven to be one of the most reliable servers in the house. The only other system as reliable has been our HPUX system running on a multiprocessor superSPARC system. Compare the little '266 to a $250,000 HP system. Pretty good stuff, Linux!
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All I know is that my Linux internet gateway server accumulated an uptime of 11 months before a severe thunderstorm finally hung a couple of processes. Our NT corporate server, on the other hand, has caused us nothing but grief. But here's the kicker. The Linux is running on a common, ordinary Gateway p2-266. NT is on a Hewlett-Packard Netserver running 39GB of raid-5. So the NT should be more reliable, right? Hmmm. Maybe NT5/win2k will clean up M$ act, but for me, Linux has proven to be one of the most reliable servers in the house. The only other system as reliable has been our HPUX system running on a multiprocessor superSPARC system. Compare the little '266 to a $250,000 HP system. Pretty good stuff, Linux!