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To: trouthead who wrote (16388)	5/13/1999 11:33:00 PM
From: Jon Tara	of 64865

FWIW, Solaris vs. NT uptime... I agree that Win95/98 = at least one reboot a day. But NT is not the same animal. I run NT 4.0 server and Solaris 7 X-86 side-by-side at home. (On two separate machine.) I reboot the NT server when I install software. (bummer that that's still necessary...) Otherwise, maybe once a month something goes wrong and it has to be re-booted due to some failure. (Not surprising, given the amount of third-party kernel-mode software installed on the typical NT workstation or server.) I don't think I've ever had to reboot Solaris due to a software failure. So, Solaris gets the nod, but NT really isn't bad for a workstation. For a server, I'd be happier if you didn't have to reboot upon installing the most trivial application. BTW, I echo the sentiment a couple of others have expressed here that Sun still needs to really get behind Solaris X86. Heck, I'd be happy if they'd just write a mouse driver that doesn't have the cursor lagging the mouse by 1/2 second. I find the console absolutely unusable. I've had to install an X-server (Frontier SuperX) on NT to be able to get any work done on Solaris X86. (I'm sure that the mouse driver works fine on the Sparc. It does, doesn't it? Anyone?)

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