Comments on: News flash: Windows is cheaper than Linux! https://dfarq.homeip.net/news-flash-windows-is-cheaper-than-linux/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-flash-windows-is-cheaper-than-linux David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:01:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/news-flash-windows-is-cheaper-than-linux/#comment-1304 Thu, 05 Dec 2002 03:45:51 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=257#comment-1304 Windows costs less than Linux. A bit. Sometimes – MS study
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By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/news-flash-windows-is-cheaper-than-linux/#comment-1307 Wed, 04 Dec 2002 02:03:44 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=257#comment-1307 Reboot a busy NT server once a year from lockups, etc? We have several hundred servers where I work, about evenly split between Windows NT/2000 and *Nix (Sun, HP, a few Linux). I’d estimate that we average a couple of Windows reboots a day (not counting patches etc., just lockups, services can’t be restarted, etc.

To be fair some Unix reboots occur too, but much less often, and these are often much more heavily stressed servers with hundreds of users. Even when they are rebooted, I think it’s often due more to admin inability to diagnose the problem rather than actual necessity.

I know of one NT web application server that probably averages > 1 reboot per week. Windows has made a lot of strides in stability, but *nix is still the big winner for stability, security, and lack of virus worries.

BTW, uptime for my RH 8.0 workstation is now 60 days, and it’s 61 days for my RH 7.3 server.

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