No, OS choice does not affect hardware lifetime, at least for hardware that would be used in a server. Maybe if you ran some embedded machine with flash memory as primary storage, you'd wear out the flash card more quickly if you didn't use a filesystem that spread writes across the chip, but I don't think furnation is running off a 256MB CompactFlash card.
The typical Linux zealot will blame Windows for anything--power supply blown? Shouldn't have used Windows. Cracked Athlon CPU? Windows did that. Bad acne? Windows again.
Since you're a Slashdot reader, here's a little something for you:
Phase 1: Write software and give it away for free.
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: PROFIT!
No, OS choice does not affect hardware lifetime, at least for hardware that would be used in a server. Maybe if you ran some embedded machine with flash memory as primary storage, you'd wear out the flash card more quickly if you didn't use a filesystem that spread writes across the chip, but I don't think furnation is running off a 256MB CompactFlash card.
The typical Linux zealot will blame Windows for anything--power supply blown? Shouldn't have used Windows. Cracked Athlon CPU? Windows did that. Bad acne? Windows again.
Since you're a Slashdot reader, here's a little something for you:
Phase 1: Write software and give it away for free.
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: PROFIT!