[NTLUG:Discuss] whoo hoo! Linux = Stability

[David Venable]

Chris Cox wrote:

> Wayne Dahl wrote:
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>>  I should have read more than the first page...there were several other
>> examples with longer up times.  But the question about other OS's still
>> stands.
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> Most *ix have uptimes in the hundreds of days (possible).
> I reboot Sun most often... however our mainframe Linux get
> rebooted alot too (maturity issue... of course that's not
> a full machine reboot.. just the Linux).  Sun demands
> (and it really shouldn't do this) that you reboot after
> installation of many patches.  So we reboot at the request
> of Sun.  Our Sun cluster gets messed up sometimes and we
> have to reboot it.  Oddly enough, our Tru64 (DEC Unix) boxes
> have incredible uptimes... shame HPaq thinks it's toast.
> AIX can get confused occasionally as well.  HPUX holds
> up well.. but can be easily killed with a normal portscan.
>
> Linux really, really holds up.  Even when confused (which
> isn't terribly often), I'm usually able to right things without
> having to bring the platform down.
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I manage over 200 solaris boxen and for most of the patches, sun 
reccomends installing them in single user mode. With the exception of 2 
systems, our boxes have only rebooted for patching in the past year.