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#! rnews 2156 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.networking:10472 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:3809 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!maxwell.physics.duq.edu!broderic From: broderic@Duquesne University (Don Broderick) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 23 Jul 1995 23:41:20 GMT Organization: Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3uumn0$ri9@godot.cc.duq.edu> References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <id.VAPL1.0SA@nmti.com> <3uhstv$pf@empire.texas.net> <3ul4g2$i6n@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: maxwell.physics.duq.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@bonnie.heep.sax.de) wrote: : Joseph R.M. Zbiciak <im14u2c@millenium.texas.net> wrote: : >... (Moreso RAM than anything.) When you buy : >into a Sun or an HP or an SGI, etc, you know you're getting a good : >motherboard, a good SCSI controller, a good ethernet interface, etc. When : >you buy into a PC, there's too many variables. : Just my very personal opinion, based on experience: : If you buy an SGI, you get a crappy and bloated o/s, that won't let : you run true multi-user (at least not on the cheaper Indy). I would ...snip... I beg to differ. There was a post somewhere in this thread about how Sun's used to be the luxury machines of the market; this is a position now owned (IMHO) by SGI. I'd be willing to debate about SGI performance if need be, but this isn't the place. : Btw., the shortest time between crashes on an SGI has been < 1 hour. : And the system requires manual intervention to reboot. We had to : reinstall it already twice after such reboots due to the flakey file : system safety. The i586 runs for 40+ days now, and there are : currently only two show-stopper bugs that i know of, but that can be : worked around well. Unlike all other Unix machines in our office, : FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 does also survive the frightening "fork trap". Just curious... what seems to crash the SGI? What are you using it for? db