On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 09:24:07AM -0500, James D. Freels wrote: > In my mind several factors stand out about Debian: > > (1) The stable version is stable (really runs for days, months, years, > etc.). The MTBF becomes tied to hardware failures (hard drives being > the most vulnerable) not software.
Excellent point. I've had a Debian server colocated with ISPs since December 96. Deployed with Debian 1.1, upgraded in place, without reboot, to 1.3. Up about 160 days until an impatient user with root access for political reasons rebooted it (couldn't wait for routed to learn some new routes to his ISP dialup, argh). Then it was up for some more months until I changed ISP, where it went down a few times due to bad power supply at the ISP, and once due to power-supply-related hard disk errors. Up 39 days since I fixed it. Minimal load but downtime in 16 months is only a day or so due to the hard disk problem (I was overseas when it developed). I have only had to have physical access about four times, and once was to install new hardware. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia & Musition. 31 Elmhurst Road, Blackburn, Victoria Australia, 3130 Phone: +61 3 9894 4788 Fax: +61 3 9894 3362 USA Toll Free: 1-888-667-7839 Internet: http://www.rising.com.au/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
