In article <41632b86$0$43451$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
Martin P. Hellwig <mhellwig@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>Gauth wrote:
>> Hy,
>>
>> I'm searching comparison (advantages, disadvantages) between
>> BSD,LINUX,WINDOWS.
>> What's the MTTF (Mean Time To Fealure) of this 3 OS ?
>
>Depends if you call a reboot to install a new kernel/world/update/patch
>a failure. The effect is the same btw, downtime. If you compare all the
> OS on stable hardware and stable releases/functionality (for windows
>it would be 2003).
>
>Then you will find out (just as me) that the average is about the same
>for all, that means that if you are security concerned and do all the
>patching and updates, you'll have about the same downtime on all platforms.

Except for Windows habit of insisting on a reboot whenever you
install new programs. :-) I've never seen a unix box do that. (And, on
most there ways of getting it to recognize new hardware (e.g. external
SCSI drives) without rebooting, though the rebooting is the simple way
to do it.

Good Luck,
DoN.

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