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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD, which is more reliable?
Date: 8 Apr 1996 08:46:47 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <4jt34a$1nm@news7.erols.com>,
Reinhold J. Gerharz <rgerharz@erols.com> wrote:
>I have dabbled with Linux for a few years, now, but have never tried
>FreeBSD. I would like to use one or the other to build a data
>acquisition system that must stay up for more than a year at a time.
>
>With that in mind, could anyone how knows both systems comment on the
>desirability of one over the other?
The most important thing you can do is get reliable and well designed
hardware..
Most BSD crashes I see are due to flaky hardware..
talk to rgrimes@freebsd.org for good pointers
He makes a living following what works well.
depending on what you want to do, you might want to get
one of the 'golden' releases of FreeBSD, as you probably don't
need every new feature..
If you can get a copy of 1.1.5 (ah, a good vintage)
some people have been running that for AGES (years) (nearly 2 now)
with only reboots (no crashes)
Unfortunatly we can never make guarentees..
2.1 seems good, but 2.1.1 should be better.
depends how much you are stressing it...
if it never has to page, then it will
be more reliable, and the same if it doesn't do fancy tricks with
mapping ram here and there..
so it's hard to know what our reliability willbe..
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