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From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Message-ID: <DC4soz.Fw0@kithrup.com>
References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <3uk3b5$35a@legend.txdirect.net> <DC3sEM.1Jr@saturn.tlug.org> <tgmDC46x0.A4M@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 18:58:10 GMT
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In article <tgmDC46x0.A4M@netcom.com>,
Thomas G. McWilliams <tgm@netcom.com> wrote:
>Anyone who would be so foolish as
>to use FreeBSD as a mission critical server should ask the OS/2
>community which was schwacked hard by the loss of a major FTP site.

What a laugh.

My system, running FreeBSD, is more stable than my apartmentmate's system
running OS/2.  The only reasons my machine goes down are for backups, and
the power failures that Palo Alto Power is so fond of.  (This means it goes
down around two times a month, in general.)

The most stable system I've ever used was XENIX/386, from SCO.  But I've got
my FreeBSD-1.1++ system running stable enough for me to go away for a couple
of weeks at a time, and be reasonably able to expect to come back to a
system that has stayed up that entire time.