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From: djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD, which is more reliable?
Date: 05 Apr 1996 13:45:56 -0800
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> : 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.
Hmm, stay up for a year at a time, or keep going for more than
a year at a time? It's very easy to automatically reboot and keep
going where you left off. Data acquisition though... I'd say you'd
need at least a couple of machines so that one is running while the
other is rebooting. What's supposed to happen when the power goes
out for a longer period of time than your UPC? If you've got your
own generator, you should be able to afford multiple pc's though.
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Darin Johnson
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