On 01-May-97 Kevin Traas wrote:
>> The only people who have reasonably stable Windows machines are the tech
>> heads and geeks who have the time, ability, and the inclination to mess
>> about it with it for days and weeks on end.
>
>Funny. Sounds like most Linux people I know However, I rese
> The only people who have reasonably stable Windows machines are the tech
> heads and geeks who have the time, ability, and the inclination to mess
> about it with it for days and weeks on end.
Funny. Sounds like most Linux people I know However, I resent being
called a "geek"
(Just t
I would just like to say that it is not mythology. First PC's have long
borrowed there technologies from the more mature systems that had been
around ( the main/mini/ and super computer enviorns) those systems
usualy ran some kind of unice, when it becomes cheap enough to mass
produce the high end
> The only people who have reasonably stable Windows machines are the tech
> heads and geeks who have the time, ability, and the inclination to mess
> about it with it for days and weeks on end.
And that stability only lasts till you install a new piece of software
only to discover that it stomp
On Tue, 13 May 1997, George Bonser wrote:
> Debian is not "point and click" or "plug and play" but then again,
> neither are the operating systems that claim to be, really.
and that's the truth.
I think that's one of the things that annoy me the most about the plug and
play mythology - that it I
> Nathan E Norman writes:
Nathan> [...] The biggest difference is the price tag. An unlimited
Nathan> BSDI 3.0 license is $2995. An unlimited Linux licenses
Nathan> costs about $0. [...]
Of course, BSDI isn't the only BSD out there and there are several
that cost $0, too.
kai
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I missed the original messages but I will add my $.02 worth here. I have
used Debian as a server for a lightly used home LAN and SMTP <--> UUCP
mail and news gateway for about 9 months.
SOme of the things that I am most pleased with are the continuing upgrades
and ease of upgrading, stability, a
Thanks, really. Thank you very much for your comprehensive good
news!
Andreas.
: I use Debian Linux boxes for nearly all important (i.e. can't afford any
: downtime) internet related servers. I also use it as the main Windows
: SMB file server (with samba) at my main job.
:
: Linux's reliabil
Hi Chris,
Just a note to tell you that I have been using Debian here on all my
servers.
I am currently a low to medium voulme system and so I am unable to say what
the stability of the system would be like at high traffic levels.
Upon initial setup, the Debian systems have been preforming flawle
On 12 May 1997, Chris Brown wrote:
> I would like to hear from folks that are running medium to high volume
> servers related to their experiences. My boss was talking to folks
> at Netcom and was convinced by them, to some extent, that BSD was
> far superior to any Linux. That BSD was based on be
> :Stability is certainly a large concern of mine since
> :I really don't want to have to baby sit the thing much once it is set
> :up. As long as other folks don't get in and screw with it, I don't
> :see that that is much to ask.
I set up my first "dial-on-demand" internet "router" for my L
Here at CFNI we have chosen Linux as our web server. Granted, the
server has not yet seen high volume traffic but we've run a lot of tests
and are confident it will handle what we throw at it. To date, we've
never crashed (knock on wood). I attribute much of that stability to
the excellent quali
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