+ 0 - 0 | § ¶Slashdot entry regarding stability
Whie reading an article on Slashdot about NASA using Linux; I came across a very well written entry regarding Linux stability:
It goes on stating that Linus once said that 'hardware is inherently stable; there is no reason that software shouldn't be either'. The fact that 2.6 is not terribly stable is something I've been noticing on my Kubuntu desktop. I can't really complain - I'm running the Dapper version; so it's not done yet. I've been contributing my failry regular crashing mostly with the ATI fglrx driver (3d+ati+linux=crash; especially with this version). (more)NASA has this dead on. When you're dealing with failures that can cost millions, the 2.6 kernel is simply not reliable enough. Hell, if you're dealing with failures that cost thousands, it's not reliable enough... and most server failures cost at least that much for midsize and larger companies. Downtime is really expensive. And you're entirely likely to have it with 2.6.