On 25 Oct 2000, at 16:00, J. Atwood wrote:
"Months without rebooting"?
That is certainly not something to brag about.
Huh? Did anybody? Certainly not me. :-{ In case I didn't make myself clear: for running Zope; I don't care much whether the OS needs a reboot every month, every year, or every decade, when I have to upgrade and/or restart Zope for installing Hotfixes and/or new products, every other month, anyway.
With three of my installations of Zope on Linux I have the machines at 194, 204 and 55 days of uptime (and the 55 was because of a bad powerstrip, the other others have been up since I brought them up).
So what. I'm using an old 3.51 server on one of my companies intranets here, serving as a backup domain controller plus a few other, less important services, which is running for about half a year now (power failure in the machine room, too). That machine has begun life as a OS/2 Lanmanager server (ca '90), and has been upgraded almost seamlessly again and again, both in hardware and in software, since.
While NT can and does stay up for long periods of time, it still is a very poor server choice as anything you install leads to a reboot.
Well, W2K certainly has more capabilities here, and Linux, for example, is somewhat better in some (!) areas, but "anything" is a gross exaggeration.
I have installed countless things on the Linux boxes and never brought it down. That is the difference and makes all the difference when it comes to a website.
The vagueness of the first statement doesn't justify your conclusing, IMHO. But to each his own.