Reportedly available now (with purchase of a new pc), Glass-paned-openings Xtra Pretentious x63.5 edition should be able to crash your system faster than ever before. Although there is some goofy trade-in program for current owners of the non-64bit version of the cripplified os, the product will not (yet?) be sold in retail stores. Cnet details their underwhelming experience in this review.

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After contemplating defection to a GSM network with greater flexibility (intl roaming, etc) and better handsets, we have reluctantly signed another Verizon contract. Verizon does not carry any phones that I was excited about, but the sad fact is that their coverage area is tough to beat, and their rates simply cannot be beat. Our 5-way shareplan brings each phone to less than $20/month - nationwide no-roaming, unlimited mobile-mobile (which covers ~95% of the airtime we use), etc.

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This is from a FreeBSD box at work:
2:40PM up 510 days, 21:14, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

I would like to see a Windows box go that long without a restart. Not really though, it would probably be unresponsive by that point.
The server above is a mail server that handles all outgoing mail for ~35 users, and it also gets some use as a web, file and db server.

These are the secondary and tertiary dns/mail servers: (running Debian Linux)
18:42:53 up 159 days, 23:47, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
18:43:10 up 131 days, 57 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Also interesting is that the last one doesn't even have a UPS

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