On 7/24/06, Eduardo Grosclaude eduardo.grosclaude@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