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2000/7/11-12 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux] UID:18642 Activity:high
7/10           \_ dude, its RH. Crash and Burn by definition.
                \_ yeah, especially that redhat box I just upgraded from
                   2.0.36 that had been up for 320 days.  Man what a piece
                   of junk.  -tom
                   \_ Man, I don't remember soda being up that long .. ever.
                      \_ I dont know a machine that does as much as soda on
                         so little.
                         \_ This doesn't explain the crashes at all.  Is
                            FreeBSD stable or not stable?  Make up your mind.
                            \_ Soda is running stock fbsd?
                        \_ Well, that particular box is the web server and
                           e-mail server for the Physics department, and is
                           a PII/266.   It's not as heavily used as soda but
                           it's not trivial use either.  -tom
                           \_ A single web server for a department?  How much
                              more trivial can it get?  C'mon tom, join us out
                              here and try out some redundancy, millions of
                              hits per day, db servers, app servers, load
                              balancing across multiple colos in multiple
                              countries.  It's a whole other world.
                   \_ that's nothing! my NT machine hasn't crashed in
                   over 500 hours!  hmmm. .. wait a minute.. that sucks.
                      \_ My penis was up longer than that.
                         \_ You must be having paraphimosis.  I suggest
                            you go see a physician immediately.
                         \_ This can actually be life threatening.  The above
                            is right.  Go see a doctor.  I suggest emergency
                            room.  You might not survive until you get a
                            regular appointment.
                 \_ your machine is up because it runs linux, not because of
                    redhat. redhat IS a piece of shit insofar as what it's
                    done to linux
                    \_ yeah, keep bitching about the one implementation
                    of linux that non cs people have a chance of using...
                    bill gates is smiling right now, you stupid fuck.
                    \_ Uhm... using?  What about RH makes it "usable" for the
                       non-geeks?  The install?  The GUI?  fbsd has a better
                       installer and the GUI isn't RH specific.
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