Pick out a perfect OS?
*Watchdog listens....
There isn't one? Okay, issue settled apart from one small detail that you have overlooked:
setup two identical systems, one running off your choice of Win32, and one running FreeBSD, and configure them to get equal usage, similar tasks, etc, and for uptime the fbsd box will win out every time.
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If you set up two identical systems then they will both have the same OS as well as the same motherboard, processor, video card, memory, hard disc, etc. If you change any single one of those items then the boxes are NOT identical. RE: OS's, I've used all the popular ones, Win 9X, Win 2000/XP/NT, FreeBSD, Deadhat, WinLinux and Corel Linux, OS2, DOS and Crapple OSX. I'd lump Win 9X together with OS2 for dependability. They work for a while, die then after rebooting all is normal again. Linux, well, it's okay and more popular on the desktop than FreeBSD because there's more desktop apps for it. FreeBSD, Win2000 and WinXP have the same levels of stability and reliability. No amount of Bill Gates bashing will prove otherwise. I've seen both OS's last a long time. There are IRC servers running BSD that have been up for over a year, likewise and closer to home, where I work there are NT powered desktops running PABX management software that have been up for over 4 years - what can run for 1 year will probably run for four so there's no valid argument that one is better than the other. It comes down to personal choice.
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