From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,89226195d95fba21 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" Subject: Re: Operating Systems Date: 1997/08/05 Message-ID: <33E693F3.439D@pseserv3.fw.hac.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 262434177 Sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com (News Administration) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sparc01 References: <33D541EF.17B6@digiscape.com> <5rhg4g$5ja$1@kelp.mbay.net> <33E604B8.778317D1@silver.jhuapl.edu> Organization: Hughes Defense Communications Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-08-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > 1) Linux was far more reliable than the other Unixes, ... more > reliable than any Microsoft variant in use. .... The following has been mentioned before in this newsgroup, but this is a good place to repeat it: "...... found failure rates ranging from a low of 18% (HPUX) to a high of 43% (NeXTStep). Free software fares much better, with the failure rate for GNU utilities at 7% and Linux utilities at 9%. ...." For details, see http://www.caldera.com/linux-int/Introduction/Usenet/case6.html -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wes Groleau, Hughes Defense Communications, Fort Wayne, IN USA Senior Software Engineer - AFATDS Tool-smith Wanna-be Don't send advertisements to this domain unless asked! All disk space on fw.hac.com hosts belongs to either Hughes Defense Communications or the United States government. Using email to store YOUR advertising on them is trespassing! ----------------------------------------------------------------------