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Are you grouping operating systems into "linux" and "non-linux" categories, and asserting that the "linux" operating systems are nowhere near as stable? I'd st

• bifrost 14y ago
  If you compare with Solaris, AS/400, OS/390, AIX, FreeBSD, HP/UX, and a few others - Linux loses bigtime in the uptime department. That doesn't make Linux less useful, it just hilites the maintenance required. People (MSFT mainly) use Windows to a high degree of success, they just reboot it a lot. I have a Linux system that needs to be rebooted every 3-4 days to maintain usability, I can't do anything about it because the system itself is essentially closed. I have a lot of customers who use Linux, the ones who don't have problems mostly run CentOS. The ubuntu users always seem to have problems, although I suspect thats usually due to it being developers running systems vs ops people. The ones who run every other Linux seem pointy headed enough not to screw themselves over. ProTip: If you break your box regularly, you are not a good sysadmin.