Re: [TCLUG:16719] The NVidia license

[Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org>]

> I have however personally had admin responsibility for
> Linux boxes (including this one) that have regularly
> exceeded 60 days. This very box was at ~65 days when
> I decided to redo my ext2 filesystems as reiserfs
> (yes, it does seem to work nicely). This 65 day uptime
> included _many_ software upgrades and basic reconfigurations.
> I had a box run almost a year on 1.0.9 before I shut it down to
> upgrade it to upgrade to 1.2. It was doing real work serving as
> a dialup comm server, gopher, and web server. I have seen no
> indication that any later version is less stable.

Hmmm. Just checked my DEC Multia that does my ipmasq...

  4:55pm  up 71 days, 17:40,  3 users,  load average: 1.20, 1.05, 0.96

Nifty. Though I plan to nuke RedHat and run Debian on it Real Soon
Now...

Not that it does much other than route packets, crunch RC5 and do a
little web/ftp serving...