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From: mgove@netcom.com (Matthew E. Gove)
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
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Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 02:14:20 GMT
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In article <tgmDC46x0.A4M@netcom.com>,
Thomas G. McWilliams <tgm@netcom.com> wrote:
[stuff snipped]
>Without a doubt, the crash of '95 was ftp.cdrom.com and FreeBSD.  What
>was the cost to the Internet community? What would be the cost to your
>business to lose connectivity for a week? How "Free" is FreeBSD when
>you factor in over a week of downtime? Face it, if you need 24 hour per
>day, 365 day per year reliability, FreeBSD will *NOT* cut it.

	I've got to add my $0.02 to this one..  I've been running FreeBSD
since 1.0.  The _only_ time its EVER crashed on me was when my old 386-40
board went belly-up.  My current box (An EISA 486DX-50 40mb, bt747C,etc) Has
_never_ had a single crash on FreeBSD 2.0 and now 2.0.5 (Except for the
ocasional power failure that outlasts the UPS, but thats not FreeBSD's fault..)
I've had uptimes of >60 days.  (Yeah, it dosn't handle the load that 
ftp.cdrom.com does, but I can do a number on it.)

  -- Matt, _very_ happy FreeBSD user.






-- 
Matthew E. Gove                                                mgove@netcom.com
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!!