I run NT4 on my own system and know from experiece that it is quite fast and fairly reliable as a workstation OS. However, while running linux i discovered that once it was setup and doing what i want i could leave it running forever and it would still be running just fine. NT does not quite have that low maintence luxury. Do to being a microsoft product RAM is SUCKED by any application, and is quite famous for having maintence problems. Thus the theme of my thread. If you want to run NT becouse its faster great, but if you want to be on the net hosting things and have your server stay up...get linux. Besides its free.
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I run NT4 on my own system and know from experiece that it is quite fast and fairly reliable as a workstation OS. However, while running linux i discovered that once it was setup and doing what i want i could leave it running forever and it would still be running just fine. NT does not quite have that low maintence luxury. Do to being a microsoft product RAM is SUCKED by any application, and is quite famous for having maintence problems. Thus the theme of my thread. If you want to run NT becouse its faster great, but if you want to be on the net hosting things and have your server stay up...get linux. Besides its free.