Distro comparison
Rich Braun
richb at pioneer.ci.net
Mon Oct 20 17:22:48 EDT 2003
josephc at etards.net wrote:
> That's not to say I have a FreeBSD box with more than
> a year between reboots. In fact, people who boast about that are
> probably running the most insecure systems not named Windows.
True enough about system security on general-purpose systems. However, if you
define the system's functionality narrowly enough, you can push Linux to long
uptime.
My file server is going strong:
% uptime ; uname -a
5:11pm up 416 days, 4:33, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.18, 0.18
Linux summit.ci.net 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:40:35 EDT 1999 i686 unknown
Yup, that's a *1999*-vintage kernel running since summer '02. It's not
especially insecure, though, because it only runs Samba and a backup NTP
server. So long as that old kernel will keep running whatever security-patch
level of these apps is required, I don't need to reboot. RAID also
contributes to long uptime.
-rich
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