On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 22:29, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> I do wish things were done more like how it was on the Amiga: > All in all, it was rather neat at how it handled such things. I > certainly miss the ease that I could swap drives around between boxes. > Though, more so, I miss the fact that one OS was installed on my system > for umpteen years with *no* need of replacement or repair. Applications > were another matter, but the longevity of the OS was a godsend. I still have a couple of boxes running RH 7.3. On one, the last kernel update was in July 2003 and I don't think it has been rebooted since. That version had a bug that made the uptime counter roll at 497 days so I can't be sure, but it's running DHCP and internal DNS and I'm not aware of them ever being down. Most of my production servers are running Centos 3.x and have been for years, but they get an occasional reboot when the kernel is updated. Once you get to an X.X.20 version of Linux it tends to be pretty stable - or at least it did in the versions that had an odd-numbered twin for new development work. Those days might be over. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
