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To: sandeep who wrote (49953)	9/26/2000 6:13:20 PM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 74651

Yes, the fact, that an installation program needs to reboot the machine counts against the OS. Simply because you cannot operate a server today without having to install programs. And you don't want to reboot a server. I never reboot a Linux server. But I upgrade the server software frequently (approx. as often as Microsoft puts out new service packs). It usually upgrade the server while it is in use - I even upgrade the Linux services that are in use. I demonstrated it today at a course where I taught Linux programming. There were 10 people connected to the server with persistent TCP connections. Then I restartet the network subsystem with a change in the IP settings (the default gateway). Nobody lost their TCP connection... I could have upgraded the network card driver without having anybody lose their TCP/IP connection over that network card. I look forward to see, whether Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 can be installed with all services running and no server reboot.