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The holy grail of 100% uptime is a little bit closer
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| Whether your a systems administrator managing hundreds or thousands of
| machines, or a freelance designer working on your trusty laptop, chances are
| that a mandatory system update has, at one time or another, interrupted your
| day with a mandatory reboot. When it’s just your laptop, it’s not so bad —
| get a refill on that coffee! — but when it’s hundreds or thousands of
| machines, it can be a logistical nightmare. Now a new company called KSplice
| is looking to make all our lives a little easier by applying system updates
| to a running computer without requiring a reboot!
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http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/02/the-holy-grail-of-100-uptime-is-a-little-bit-closer/
Recent:
Ksplice: kernel patches without reboots
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| The kernel developers are generally quite good about responding to security
| problems. Once a vulnerability in the kernel has been found, a patch comes
| out in short order; system administrators can then apply the patch (or get a
| patched kernel from their distributor), reboot the system, and get on with
| life knowing that the vulnerability has been fixed. It is a system which
| works pretty well.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/050608-kslice.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Linux on the server sees reliability gains
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| Mainstream Linux distributions for servers have caught up substantially with
| Unix in terms of reliability over the past year, while Windows Server 2003
| downtime has risen by nearly 25 percent...
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62040278,00.htm?scid=rss_z_nw
Related:
Linux provides solid uptime for automated hunting and fishing licenses
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| Even with the challenges, Edwards is completely happy with Linux. "There's no
| question. It's absolutely critical for us to make money. If we're down,
| there's penalties we get assessed by the state governments. We absolutely
| have to be up all the time. For the most part, we make that. We haven't had
| any issues with open source."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/121606
Smarts Offers Multi-Station Linux-Based Automation
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| The company says Skylla has been in development for several
| years by engineers and programmers from Smarts and its sister
| company, On Air Digital. The companies have been migrating into
| Linux for several years, and report increased reliability with
| those products. Servers running in Linux have recorded up
| times of more than a year without a reset.
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http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0108/t.6169.html
Linux versus Windows: OS impact on uptime and speed
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| Linux was ahead of Windows every week by more than 0.5%. For
| your understanding 0.5% downtime means 50 minutes per week, or
| 216 minutes or 3 hours 36 minutes per month.
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http://blog.mon.itor.us/?p=286
Shining a LAMP on Web 2.0
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| Uptime monitoring firm Pingdom has done a small survey of some of the
| most popular Web 2.0 sites on the Internet to see what is running under
| the hood that keeps the web sites going.
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| The results are a fairly conclusive vote of confidence in the LAMP
| stack: six out of the seven businesses queried are running Linux and
| MySQL, five are using Apache, and five are using PHP.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/02/shining_a_lamp.html
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