Glass panels: what OS?

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Hmmm...our WinXP workstations crash about twice a week. We (before I was
there) unloaded Win2000 servers for Linux when we had to shut down at least
twice monthly. Those Win2000 servers, BTW, we set up my Microsoft, so dont
say that we didn't do it right. The Linux servers were set up by our own
techs, though our #1 geek has an MasterSci EE
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Most of the time, when a shop has Linux boxes, it doesn't have techs, it has
OS evangelists, who have a vested interest in insuring that Windows boxes
fail. In most instances, if they would spend as much time learning how to
administer Windows boxes as they do playing with Linux boxes they would see
a marked decrease in their failure rate.

Most Linux heads tend to be geeks, and they tend to put all kinds of geek
crap on their computers. Of course, none of this geek crap is written to
Microsoft standards because geeks know much better ways to do things. If you
put crappy, non-standard software on a machine, it will crash, no matter
what the underlying operating system.

When a new aircraft rolls out the door of the Cessna factory, it was "set
up" by Cessna technicians. But that doesn't mean someone who doesn't know
what they're doing couldn't crash it 15 minutes later.

So, which is better: Windows or Linux? That's like asking which is better:
hammers or screwdrivers. In both instances, you are looking at a tool, and
for a given job one may be superior. But it won't be superior for all jobs.

And consider this: Do you send email? A large chunk of the recipients of
that email get it across networks that weren't set up by Phd/EE's, but were
instead set up by a reasonably intelligent person who saw the need for a
network, read a couple of Windows books, and was able to set up a Windows
network, thanks to the user-friendly Windows installation routines. If they
had needed to rely on Netware, or Linux, or any of the other non-Microsoft
systems those networks would never have been built.

And, in many instances, that's what counts...






"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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I thought Linux rarely ever crashes but that is only what I've heard.

Actually, I have a Red Hat Linux server. In the six months that I have
owned
it, it has crashed four times and had to be restarted. OTOH, the Windows
XP
Professional computers have not crashed even once during that time.

Hmmm...we're running Oracle on two Linux servers and they've not crashed
in
the 10 months I've been at the company. Before that, the company I was at
ran HP-Ux on HP-9000's and they didn't crash in the two years we had them
before the company went under. Well, they burped twice for seven or eight
minutes each time, but the failover was instantaneous.


I hear a lot about Windows' instability. I say it is crap. All I can go
on
is my own personal experience, but MS operating systems are the only
ones
that I have ever used that can go for more than a few weeks without
crashing.

Hmmm...our WinXP workstations crash about twice a week. We (before I was
there) unloaded Win2000 servers for Linux when we had to shut down at
least
twice monthly. Those Win2000 servers, BTW, we set up my Microsoft, so
don;t
say that we didn't do it right. The Linux servers were set up by our own
techs, though our #1 geek has an MasterSci EE


What am I supposed to do? Believe my own experience, or believe a
bunch of anti-social geeks who begin frothing at the mouth and chewing
the
carpet at the mere mention of Microsoft or Bill Gates?

Why should we believe you? :~)