On Fri, January 27, 2017 11:48 am, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Friday, January 27, 2017 11:11 AM -0600 Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
<rant> Even with having to notify users/schedule reboots as rarely as once every 54 days on average, this is really PITA, because it is often. That, BTW is why we fled our servers away from Linux ;-( </rant>
Towards what? What other system has few updates and yet remains secure and bug-free?
You are right. None of them are bug free, you have to update, update, update... any one of them. With FreeBSD (sorry for mentioning, I promised once I wouldn't...) I only had to reboot the machines with about 200 days uptime last time. 4 - 5 times less often than Linux. (Of course, we are not going to go into other differences which are beyond updates, and what glibc and kernel updates entail).
I'm not certain, if I had to put my answer into rant tags... please do it for me if you feel it is.
Valeri
I know I dread when Windows drops a pile of updates, as I'm never sure it's going to come back up.
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