On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 08:43 +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > > I'm not arguing that it doesn't happen. I've experienced a few. The > > original post was directed to a fellow who wants to run a home server on > > The original post was by valent.turkovic and actually referred to a > document written by someone who'd decided Fedora was a poor choice for a > server, and invited comment. Sorry, let me rephrase that. The post to which I originally responded was from a fellow who wanted to run a home server on his desktop. > I would think that a home Linux user running a server controlling his > Internet connexion and maybe providing mail and http caching is fairly > common. While maybe not life-threatening, its sudden lack might be > pretty inconvenient. Depending on the mood that my wife is in when her internet connection gets severed, it could indeed be life threatening. > _Mine_ is running CentOS4 and is on a UPS (the UPS because used good > ones can be bought pretty cheaply at auction). Mine are on UPSes as well (new ones aren't that expensive either). Still, the wireless access point is in a different part of the house, and isn't on a UPS. Fortunately, the wife gets vexed with the power company on the occasions where that's a problem. Dave
