🚀 go-pugleaf

Craig Sanders (cas@taz.net.au) wrote:
: >FatMan (fat.man@hunterlink.net.au) wrote:
: >: Hi, i'm about to start a small isp and i wanted to know which kernal
: >: is currentaly the most stable....   THANKS
: 
: linux 2.0.0 is the current stable release.  It's good.  Get it.  Also get
: either debian 1.1 or redhat (which is almost as good as debian but much
: easier to find on cd at the moment).  Avoid slackware like the plague.

I wont bother quoting the rest of the post, but you mention several times
that slackware should be avoided, incurs heavy maintenance costs, and is
unstable.  Pardon my ignorance, but where did you get these ideas from?
Ive been running slackware since its inception and apart from one release
(I think it might have been 2.2?) Ive found it to be a very suitable 
distribution of linux, and as for uptime, I have a machine which I use as 
the gateway (amongst other things) for my network, which has an average 
uptime of over 50 days a pop - and downtime has never been due to an OS 
related crash.  Ive been using linux for 3 1/2 years and the only distribution
that I can think of that you would be describing would be SLS (Which I
believe is long dead, although I could be wrong).  Feel free to enlighten me.


Pat
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