Wanted: Accurate Headlines
© dariuszka
I’m sure some folks have seen the pingdom post about the uptime of Microsoft, Apple, and Ubuntu “software update” servers over a 3 month period. Basically, the uptimes were: Microsoft, 100%; Apple, 99.9%, and Ubuntu, 98.64%. Pingdom states that they were tracking specific servers, and only the main Ubuntu archive. They point out that Ubuntu has lots of mirrors, but pingdom didn’t bother tracking any of them. So should the title of pingdom’s post really be “Microsoft’s software update beats Apple and Ubuntu?” How about “Microsoft beats Apple, Ubuntu in service reliability?”
Ok, ok, I’ll stop being a baby about it.
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Some things to make you feel better:
1) Any moron can have a blog.
2) Our updates don’t regularly cause entire OS breakage. MS updates trash your entire OS.
Just to reply to Alex: “MS updates trash your entire OS” - so have plenty of Ubuntu updates and because Ubuntu tends to cater for much larger and wide-reaching systems, the knock on effect is much larger
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Nobody’s perfect…
This is really nonsense. There is always a Ubuntu mirror up and online 100% of the time. And not just Ubuntu, this applies to all Linux distributions.