> Linux reliability has been questioned. Here is an example of demonstrated
> reliability. I re-booted it a few days ago to replace one of the tape drives
> which has worn out and needs to be refurbished.
>
> This machine runs our Name-Server. We have 300+ nodes that use this for
> all their lookups. It also backs up three Suns and a TCP/IP VAXen node
> every night from 1 to about 6 AM.
>
> # uptime
> 11:35am up 61 days, 14:43, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.01
>
> # uname -a
> Linux boneserver 2.0.16 #3 Mon Sep 2 09:25:13 EDT 1996 i486
I can top that - today we shut down our local Mud machine (usually
heavily loaded) running Linux 1.2.13 after an uptime of 366 days and
12 hours because we had to move the furniture around for installing
new network cables. Last reboot was because someone crashed the machine
mechanically after an uptime of about 180 days ...
I've got two other machines (proxy, web and dialup servers) over 100 days
up.
Ralf