Scott van Looy wrote:
Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly:
Scott van Looy wrote:
You must have a different version than I do. But really, this
discussion is somewhat silly.
Possibly, but it's been like this for 8 years...you can't compare
Win98 or something with FC6, that's just ridiculous
Why not? The concepts that make make fedora and all other Linux
versions straightforward to install and keep running were inherited
from unix and well known by the mid-80's. Microsoft just chose to
ignore them.
I believe you're forgetting the "fun" of linux in 1998 - or was your
copy of Redhat 5 just as good as FC6?
There were problems getting linux drivers to work on certain hardware
back then, but it was as good in terms of 'if it worked once it will
keep working' and if anything broke it could be fixed by replacing the
appropriate file. By RH7.3 it was about as solid as anything before or
since... I have one of those that is within a couple of months of a
4-year uptime (counter has rolled twice) - and for a few years before
that it was only down for the reboots to update the kernel.
*Every* windows box here has been down many times due to virus attacks
and the updates required to prevent more of them in that time span.
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Les Mikesell
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