RE: tlug: Fw: Could Linux Kill NT?

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> Besides, I thought this whole thread was about Linux vs NT,
    Scott> meaning, server functionality.  I would think that NT would
    Scott> have taught people the lesson that GUI and servers don't
    Scott> mix, and you should completely avoid using a GUI on a
    Scott> server machine....?

While I would agree that GUI on NT is a dangerous thing, I've had the
blue screen of death come up many times complaining about video related
problems, I have never had this problem under various flavors of
UNIX. Running X on a server is more of a performance issue, a possibly
a security issue, than one of reliability. On the few few occasions
that X has hung, I 've always been able to telnet in and kill it, with
the server happily trundling along.

Having said that, I tend not to run X on servers, but just because its
a memory hog. With memory prices so low, maybe that isn't such a big
deal anymore. Machines are fast enough now that X only uses a small
percentage of CPU as well.

So all in all, its the reliability of NT that scares me.

Andy
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