linux doesnt need ctrl alt del?? ha!

[Romeyn Prescott]

Somewhen around 7:27 PM -0600 3/29/02, a person believing themself to 
be Ryan Mesler scribbled:
>saying that linux doesnt need ctrl-alt-del is a crock. linux needs it just
>as much as any other OS. the great stories if this wonderfully stable OS i'd
>heard many moons ago were nothing more than a fallacy.
>

Well, lessee here:

My PowerBook G4 (Mac OS X):
bash-2.05$ uptime
12:05AM  up 8 days, 12:53, 1 user, load averages: 0.93, 0.81, 0.63
(Unprecedented with OS 9)

My Linux desktop at work (Gateway E-3200, RH7.2):
[prescor@digirom prescor]$ uptime
  12:14am  up 46 days,  1:26,  5 users,  load average: 1.38, 1.23, 1.19
(Add 30 or so onto that.  I only had to shut it down to move to a new office!)

My home Firewall/router/fileserver (netatalk/samba) (Pentium 120, RH7.2):
[prescor@Foundling prescor]$ uptime
   1:01am  up 51 days, 16:22,  1 user,  load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.01

My campus mail server (Gateway server, RH7.X):
bash-2.04$ uptime
  12:07am  up 112 days,  5:22,  2 users,  load average: 0.02, 0.08, 0.08

Our main student fileserver (Dell server, RH7.X):
bash-2.05$ uptime
  12:08am  up 128 days, 12:55,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.03

Our DNS server:
bash-2.05$ uptime
  11:54pm  up 216 days,  7:05,  1 user,  load average: 1.39, 1.21, 0.91

And last, and CERTAINLY not LEAST, our print job accounting server:
bash-2.05$ uptime
  12:11am  up 339 days, 18:27,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00


Not stable?  HAH!  I can count the number of kernel panics I've 
experienced on one hand, and most of THOSE were due to HARDWARE 
failure (bad RAM, etc.) and NOT software.

But of course, Your Mileage May Vary.  And it seems like it does!

Cheers,
...ROMeyn
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