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[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 01:13:35 pm J Sloan wrote:
> Kai Ponte wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 11:03:01 am J Sloan wrote:
> >> Peter Bradley wrote:
> >>> Funny that.  I've had no trouble installing the ATI drivers on my
> >>> AMD64 x 2 SUSE 10.0 Compaq box - and I'm hopeless at these sorts of
> >>> things.  I just downloaded them from ATI, ran the install script, did
> >>> aticonfig --initial and that was it.  I've also installed quite a few
> >>> updates as well.  Same procedure.  No problems - except the box
> >>> sometimes (once a month - ish) refuses to boot to runlevel 5.  I just
> >>> run aticonfig --initial from the command line, let it tell me there's
> >>> nothing to do, then reboot and all's well again.
> >>
> >> If you're somehow having to reboot a linux box that often, that's not
> >> luck, that's extreme flakiness.
> >>
> >> Joe
> >
> > I reboot my desktops every day - my laptop sometimes twice a day. 
> > Nothing wrong there. :)
>
> Your microsoft background is showing again ;)

LOL!

Well, you know those legacy OS's like Windows. They just stick around.

At least I don't tell the mainframe guys to IPL every day. :P
>
> Old school linux people don't like to reboot - I usually get 40-100 days
> uptime on my desktop boxes, rebooting for kernel upgrades. I'm a little
> more conservative on my home servers, and they routinely have 6 month
> uptimes. At work we tend to have the 400-600 day uptimes in the server
> room.


On servers I would do that. My desktops and laptops at home only are on when 
I'm actually using them - which is the evenings. I power them down otherwise. 

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kai

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