[CentOS] Statistics on stability?

Mon Jul 24 15:45:59 UTC 2006
Eduardo Grosclaude <eduardo.grosclaude at gmail.com>

On 7/24/06, Eduardo Grosclaude <eduardo.grosclaude at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > I have a number of CentOS machines that have been up 24/7 in datacenter
> > environments for years and were only rebooted on occasion as a result of
> > security-related kernel upgrades (which would affect any linux distro).
> > I can't recall EVER having uptime or network-related issues on ANY live
> > CentOS server that wasn't the direct result of a hardware failure.  It
> > just works...and works...and works.  :)  The key is to beat up on any
> > new hardware in a test environment first to make sure that you don't
> > have any incompatible hardware bits (which hasn't bitten me often).
> >
> > Thank you for your point, on which I wholly agree, but I was taking
> "stability" as "a measure of velocity in change" of a system's components--
> here reflected in a shorter or longer life cycle for each version. Please
> correct me if I am wrong, I may be misusing the word (I am heading right to
> Wikipedia in a minute! :) ).
>

Er... I'm back from Wikipedia, and found (cough) no traces of "stability" as
the proper word for what I meant, but come on, think Debian stable/unstable,
that stuff :S

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Eduardo Grosclaude
Universidad Nacional del Comahue
Neuquen, Argentina
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