[Dovecot] OT Re: crashes on 2.0.16

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 22.12.2011 08:23, schrieb Noel Butler:
> On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 23:18 -0500, Simon Brereton wrote:
> 
>>
>> I'm with Jim.  Debian has served me well for years.  This is just
>> distro-bias.  Sure, you need modicum more sense and hands on experience,
> 
> 
> distro holy ways will outlast the real world holy wars, we each have a
> distro we all stand by, else there would only be one distro.
> 
> 
>> but that's not bad thing in a production environment..
>>
>> It would be interesting to chart the number of threads caused by each
>> distro.  I don't know who would have the least, but I suspect gentoo and
>> centos would be out in front, with Ubuntu panting along behind..
>>
>> Simon
> 
> 
> I'm yet to meet a debian based admin who uses source, they only seem to
> think that apt is only way of installing stuff.
> They are scared of conflicts, who knows.  Most the servers in the DC's
> I've run or worked in are all either freebsd, RHEL, slackware or gentoo,
> the later two being my personal favourites, that said, I do use ubuntu
> LTS on pc's/laptop, if there was no LTS however, I'd likely go back to
> fedora.
> 

X-mas is comming, we are waiting to get the perfect OS presented, so
lets pray *g
by the way ,where is the match to the dovecot list topic
anyone identified the kernel bug?

> 
> 
>>> Ahhh just before I hit send I remember one, debian, like windows, is an
>>> ideal distro on a server in a Colo that charges for remote hands (incl
>>> reboots), cause they have the highest fail rate.
>>>
>>> Most stable OS's from colo are freebsd, slackware, RHEL, CentOS (ok same
>>> thing) and SuSE, and surprisingly, we once had a  customer with an old
>>> win2K box back in mid 00's, that was very well behaved, and it was busy,
>>> they ran a concert/band/event ticketing site on it, truly amazed me that
>>> box.
>>>
>>> Worse OS's would be netbsd, fedora, debian, ubuntu, mint, windows*   ..
>>> but very very nice money earners for remote hands :P
>>>
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MfG Robert Schetterer

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