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Old 7th July 2008
DrJ DrJ is offline
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I don't think stability is an issue for either BSD or Windows. I can't speak about Linux or Solaris, since I have just not used them enough.

For some numbers, the dev box has never crashed on either BSD of W2K. My BSD server does maybe once every nine months or so. My main box, about once every four months. All of these are older, dual CPU, ECC/Reg, SCSI drive boxes. The main data acquisition computer is a consumer-grade XP unit; it crashes maybe once every four months too (Ethernet cables willing).

I don't think this is anything to worry about.

Then again, I have not gotten a virus on Windows for over six years, so maybe I am just lucky.
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