[svlug] Expectations for Windows XP and Linux

[Michael Long]

My question is what are doing that requires your linux box to be 
rebooted every few weeks? Also I rarely have to reboot my wifes windows 
XP box these days either. XP has come a long ways since the 95 days 
where rebooting once a week was probably a good idea. :)

Mike



Norman Shapiro wrote:
> When, maybe every 6 weeks, I have to reboot my Linux box, I get extremely
> annoyed.
> 
> I also have a Windows XP (I need it for testing the software I develop). Every
> few days it gets into a state where it has to be rebooted. In fact, my Windows
> GURU says that it's bad practice to let Windows XP go for more than a week
> without rebooting, because operating system memory leaks might eventually damage
> the file systems.
> 
> But it turns out that I don't get nearly as annoyed by having to reboot Windows
> as I do by having to reboot Linux. Why? I'm not sure, but I think it's because I
> have grown to expect so much of Linux. Or maybe it's because its reliability has
> induced me to structure my life around it.
> 
> Incidentally. do the Microsoft ads comparing the costs of Windows' operation vs
> Linux's operation include the cost of coffee consumed while rebooting :-) ?
> 
>     Norman Shapiro
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