Re: FreeBSD in good standing in netcraft survey

[Wes Peters]

Greg Black wrote:
> 
> David Preece writes:
> 
> > Possibly off topic, possibly not. Am I the only one who doesn't really care
> > about uptimes?
> 
> I certainly am not impressed by uptimes over about 100 days.
> They show that the site does not care about keeping current.
> 
> If it made sense to have several hundred days of uptime, what is
> the point of all the development work done by the FreeBSD (and
> other OS) developers?  These people work hard to improve the
> system and it makes sense to at least run the latest production
> release.  In the case of FreeBSD, this means a reboot at least
> every three to four months when the CDs are released.

Large numbers of machines don't need to be agressively updated if they are 
kept inside a secure network and run very minimal services.  Some machines 
have their OS upgraded only when they are replaced with new hardware.  One
common candidate for this is developer workstations for embedded systems,
where the only functions they need to perform well are to run a text editor
and a cross-compiler.

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
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