As a result, Windows requires more powerful hardware. Linux has none of this excess baggage and performs well with less powerful hardware. Running a small-office mail server, Linux works just fine on a 386 processor with 16MB of memory and a few hundred megabytes of drive space. You wouldn't want to run Windows NT 4.0 on the same system. And Linux is reliable.
Many users report that their servers have run for months, even years, without crashing.
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