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2013-03-24 , 09:45
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
OK, derailing the thread even further... we are running the rocky ground now but whattehehell, let's ride it

So, I am not really in the know-how of the state of windows server administration today. Currently I only work with linux servers and the last time I had anything to do with windows was when NT4 was the state of the art, and back then there were not that many problems.

I actually don't recall ever having had that many SW related problems, all problems that we had were traced back to broken HW and there is no OS that can survive when the HW platform under starts burning chips... Even windows servers work(ed) well when there was no possibility of letting (l)users to install junk on them.

Things may have of course changed since the turn of the millenium
Yeah, NT4 was actually pretty rock-solid... well, except for the clock but that made it crash consistently every 40-something days every time, requiring a reboot to make sure the server didn't crash unexpectedly... and then the clock drifting problems.. and that's assuming you weren't one of the unlucky bunch that didn't run into the common Windows NT 4 installation blue-screen bugs.. and then there's the memory pointer bugs.. and, well... then there's all the security vulnerabilities and the ring-0 problems with drivers.

...Other than all of that, NT 4 was totally rock solid on good hardware. That tradition continues into today! Totally.

...Just to be safe, though, we'll continue migrating to Linux at work, thanks.
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