I would like to find out why Windows is prone to so many reboots compared to Linux/Unix Variants.Regards zizebra http://auction.joyoustimes.net

Based on what research to you find this to be true? Cite a study please, without a study to back up this claim i find this nothing more than bashing based on perception. If you are just going off of general appearances, i would say this.....the user base of Windows OS's is larger, and caters to a wider range of skill sets (than Linux)...particularly at the lower end of the spectrum. In my opinion Microsoft has always marketed thier OS to the masses (on tv comercials and in print ads, etc.), while Linux doesn't, its has more of a niche. That marketing has led Microsoft to many, many more customers than Linux has. From that alone its not hard to figure out why your quertion is more about preception and not relality. Take all those users and put them in a Linux environment....see what happens then. Now if you compare users of equal skill sets of, ones that follow good install practices, understand how the OS works, patch on a regular basis, virus scan, etc. I beleive you would find that Windows OS is very comparable to Linux in its need for reboots. However, without a study to back this up, its just conjectur for sides to argure. An interesting Study would be to something like this on both OS's, install 30+ applications, run for 30 days, use for 2-3 hours per day, apply a years worth of patches over the 30 days (not all at once), same thing for virus updates, etc. Then see which OS needed to be rebooted more often. Then you have a good case. Note: in statistics 30 is the minimum sample size you need to compute standard deviations, more than 30 is ideal.

Based on what research to you find this to be true? Cite a study please, without a study to back up this claim i find this nothing more than bashing based on perception. If you are just going off of general appearances, i would say this.....the user base of Windows OS's is larger, and caters to a wider range of skill sets (than Linux)...particularly at the lower end of the spectrum. In my opinion Microsoft has always marketed thier OS to the masses (on tv comercials and in print ads, etc.), while Linux doesn't, its has more of a niche. That marketing has led Microsoft to many, many more customers than Linux has. From that alone its not hard to figure out why your quertion is more about preception and not relality. Take all those users and put them in a Linux environment....see what happens then. Now if you compare users of equal skill sets of, ones that follow good install practices, understand how the OS works, patch on a regular basis, virus scan, etc. I beleive you would find that Windows OS is very comparable to Linux in its need for reboots. However, without a study to back this up, its just conjectur for sides to argure. An interesting Study would be to something like this on both OS's, install 30+ applications, run for 30 days, use for 2-3 hours per day, apply a years worth of patches over the 30 days (not all at once), same thing for virus updates, etc. Then see which OS needed to be rebooted more often. Then you have a good case. Note: in statistics 30 is the minimum sample size you need to compute standard deviations, more than 30 is ideal.

so getting back to the question posed,why does windows require rebooting more than linux? the registry is one reason,it requires resources to be freed so it can be updated,dlls are another reason ,linux does not have to be rebooted for such reasons,and with ksplice,even the kernel can be patched in memory,so that linux can stay up indefinitely. linux is used on millions of hand held devices and servers world wide,and the US government uses it for nuclear submarines and government servers,they rejected windows because of its unreliability.

so getting back to the question posed,why does windows require rebooting more than linux? the registry is one reason,it requires resources to be freed so it can be updated,dlls are another reason ,linux does not have to be rebooted for such reasons,and with ksplice,even the kernel can be patched in memory,so that linux can stay up indefinitely. linux is used on millions of hand held devices and servers world wide,and the US government uses it for nuclear submarines and government servers,they rejected windows because of its unreliability.