-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 June 2002 5:23 pm, Jan Lentfer wrote:
> I had to halt one of my machines at university a few weeks ago > because it had to be moved to antother room. It had >200 days uptime. > It works as a SAMBA-Fileserver and Printserver for 20 people and 12 > client computers. It is a Pentium 133 with 32MB and it can handle the > load pretty easily. I didn't even need to reboot the machine when we > changed the whole network (new cables, new subnet, routers, etc). Try > that with M$ ;-) My server (ice.cream.org) runs Debian* rather than Mandrake and has managed stretches of 300-400 days uptime, typically ended by someone tripping over a cable. It can have up to 70 concurrent users, and runs every service known to mortal Man ... It was a Pentium 166 for a long time; it's now a dual Pentium III 1GHz with 2GB of memory (we bought stocks when memory was being given away in cornflakes packets), 180GB of RAID storage (hard disks now being given away ditto) etc. etc. Alastair * because of bizarre 'policies' where it's physically hosted ... - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9GLR+Cv59vFiSU4YRAtXqAKDMexoQDjsL2xl0ecXxZwNAezCuVwCfRDEy Xhq9G94EmRsotbZV0NTZhAg= =VOk2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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