Reliability: Unix and Linux beat Windows (heise online) [LWN.net]

Reliability: Unix and Linux beat Windows (heise online)

Posted Apr 17, 2008 21:16 UTC (Thu) by tv (subscriber, #32991)
In reply to: Reliability: Unix and Linux beat Windows (heise online) by alvieboy
Parent article: Reliability: Unix and Linux beat Windows (heise online)

Because people using Debian don't care enough about redundant power supply?

Seriously, it seems silly to analyse downtime by OS without addressing the differences in the
hardware configuration.

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Reliability: Unix and Linux beat Windows (heise online)

Posted Apr 17, 2008 23:27 UTC (Thu) by ajross (subscriber, #4563) [Link]

And the whole notion of "downtime" as a metric is fundamentally flawed anyway.  The
overwhelming majority of "downtime" I've witnessed happens due to configuration goofs on the
part of the IT staff, followed by software failures in a distant second place and hardware
failures well behind that.  Stuff just doesn't break much in the modern world.

Notice who wrote this, though.

Posted Apr 18, 2008 13:07 UTC (Fri) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

"Debian administration department, Joe speaking."

"Hi, this is Laura DiDio.  You may remember me from such media brouhahas as the SCO case.  I
have some questions about your company's use of Linux."

*click*