On The Reliability and Stability of Linux

[ljplicease]

reliant% uptime
  9:42am  up 200 days, 10:45,  3 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

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belmont% uptime
  9:44am  up 220 days, 43 min,  5 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

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How long has your Windows box been up for?

Comments

[obligateaerobe.livejournal.com]

my Mac OS X laptop gets shut down once a.. blue moon? whenever i feel like installing security patches?

it's load average is definitely closer to 3.0 than to 0.0

and it goes to sleep regularly

do i get a candy?

[plicease]

Candy will rot your teeth.

OS X is really a derivative of BSD Unix, which is also stable on par with Linux. My iMac has been up for 26 days. I think it was last reboot for a kernel update. Windows requires you to reboot when you upgrade a DLL, which makes DLLs not very dynamic doens't it.

The load average of my AMD64 machine at work is like 0.05-0.10 most of the time, and it runs X, database and webserver.