[nzlug] favourite distro

Cliff Pratt enkidu at cliffp.com
Tue Jan 8 09:05:15 NZDT 2008


Vik Olliver wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 08:49 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
>> Well, I wouldn't really recommend debian as a desktop ( well, except
>> for loonies like me! ), but yes, I do use NFS, and my uptimes were
>> over 400 days before moving the servers, and they're back in 3 digits
>> again now. And they really do work hard for a living.
> 
> I use it for servers. NFS Is fine as long as the network doesn't go
> away. If it does, you can be in for stunningly long waits...
> 
Yes, indeed, but that's the nature of the beast. It doesn't crash the 
system though.

Cheers,

Cliff



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