Posted by Jim at May 26th, 2004

In a bid to amuse myself at work today, I decided to check the uptimes on the various servers I’m responsible for.

Windows 2000 fileserver: 23 days
Windows 2000 Small Business Server (Windows Terminal Services for ACCESS’ food pantry network): 26 days
FreeBSD fileserver: 315 days

The FreeBSD server would be higher except that I accidentally rebooted it once. The Windows servers would be higher except that I have to reboot after most updates… AND…. both seem to develop minor, inexplicable problems that can only be solved by rebooting every so often.

Oooh… One more thing… During the time I’ve been working at GRACE and ACCESS, both organization’s web hosting providers have switched to FreeBSD. GRACE’s provider switched from Sun’s Solaris. ACCESS’ provider from Linux and (get this) SCO Unix.

I’m not trying to argue that FreeBSD is the greatest operating system ever, but I do like it and find these things amusing.