With my workstation here at work passing 1 year of uptime a few days ago I must say that debian is the most solid OS for either workstation or server that I have used sofar. I'm sure some of it comes from the hardware I choose and the software config. but I am still astounded that this machine has been up for over a year, I hammer on it every weekday, and until about a week ago it did 20gigs of tape backups over NFS every weekday too. Checking 'procinfo' for % idle time it has less idle time then even my most busy servers. I run X in 1600x1200 with afterstep 1.6 on debian woody (upgraded from potato about 6 months ago). I run Opera & Netscape & VMWare & Staroffice & XMMS virtually 24/7. as well as usually 2 dozen SSH sessions & 2-3 dozen gnome terminals.
ingredients for my stable workstation: Intel P3-733Mhz Asus CUV4X 512MB PC133 ram clocked at 100Mhz IBM DDYS-T09170N 9.1GB Ultra160 SCSI hard disk Adaptec 29160N SCSI Controller (connected to hard disk and external CD-RW) Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller (connected to 2 tape drives) Plextor PX-W124TS 12/4/32 CD-R/W (burned about 200 CDs since last reboot) Quantum DLT4000(external) Exabyte Mammoth(connected, but never used..) Matrox G400 16MB OEM Video(AGP) - No DRI/AGP or any of the fancy stuff enabled. running 1600x1200 @ 16bit Soundblaster PCI 128 (Asus CUV4X onboard sound disabled in hardware) 3COM 3C905B-TX Network card Promise ATA/100 IDE controller(PCI) IBM-DTLA-307045 45GB IDE drive(this drive is **NOT** reccomended) TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6702B IDE Generic 300watt power supply(my company wouldn't spring for a good power supply when i got this system) Cyberpower AVR900 (500watt UPS) USR Courier vEVERYTHING external PS/2 Trackball, PS/2 Keyboard And perhaps one of the most important parts-- the kernel. 2.2.19 built with at least 1 3rd party patch(ide patch), perhaps others I forget. everything is statically linked into the kernel, no modules(other then vmware's 2 modules) Great work debian team! I am continually amazed at how good debian is. Now if my company is around this time next year(damn economy) I will see if i can make it to 2 years of uptime. I just wish i could switch out the power supply without rebooting :) I also work with RS6000s, HP9000s, UltraSparcs, and a couple of digital alphas(all of them workstation-class). In the past I worked with SGIs(again, all workstation-class). Out of all the ~15 OSs/Platforms I have used, debian seems the most solid for workstation-class/low end server(low end being dual cpu or less with 2GB of ram or less - I have no experience yet with anything higher end then that). nate (debian user since debian 2.0 made it's release, before that, slackware) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
