> On 3/17/10, Konstantin Svist <fry.kun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 03/16/2010 01:41 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> How times have changed. It used to be that *NIX supporters put > >> the output from uptime in their e-mails, some of which were > >> years. It was a symbol of how stable the releases were, and > >> how stable the machines running them were. > >> > >> Now people "look forward" to their next reboot and even re install. > >> > >> It's an interesting social change, I guess. > >> Recently, I rebooted two servers that had 20 days shy of 3 years of uptime: 10:37:30 up 1075 days, 16:48, 1 user, load average: 0.33, 0.30, 0.33 While interesting in the "uptime game", it really struck me that we have finally achieved the same level of reliability/stability using Linux on PC hardware as we have had previously with Solaris on SPARC. The real shock is these machines are running Fedora Core 2, which is ancient/obsolete by today's standards. --- Cris -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
