Conor Wynne said on Fri, May 07, 2004 at 09:58:17PM +0100:
> You will have to expand on that one. :--0
> I work in support, so I see most of the problems with various kernels/OS
> (mainly linux & some windows)
I should mention that non-directly-hardware related lockups are extremely
rare, at least in my experience. My linux machines run an application server,
my windows machines something similar. I've had windows machines (I manage
about 30 of them) randomly bluescreen maybe twice. Ditto for linux machines
(i.e. IBM machines panicking due to a dodgy ips module). It's all really
dependant on what you're doing (for example, I've had a Poweredge 1650 lock
up, then refuse to boot when fiddling with lm_sensors in the test lab
(Obligatory poke at how pants OMSA is).
>> Now, lets take windows2k+ (server side). Drivers causing lockups,
> software doing likewise, constant viruses and worms causing havoc, etc.,
> etc. With linux the issues were _very_ promptly fixed. With windows it
> has been much slower. Sometimes very ssllooww (vendor interaction
> issues)
With driver, sure, there can be a problem, but a lot of worms/viruses on
windows, to be fair, are not based on zero-day exploits (take sasser for
instance. I made my windows machines and desktops in the office safe from
sasser by doing exactly nothing: They've all been patched for the LSASS vuln
since the patch was released ages ago). Again, like you say, regular updates
help cure the problem.
- DoC
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