On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
... Basically, if one thinks he knows more than system vendor, he is just schizophrenic. And we, normal people, do give schizophrenics a privilege to be on their own. As we, normal people know that if the distro maintainers had to update kernel, they had a reason (otherwise, something else breaks). So, we are left running _this_ system, even though it's stressful, still not as stressful as running "bleeding edge" fedora, right? ;-)
What? Stressful?? Fedora??? Naaahhh ...I'm sorry, apart from my laptop, I also run servers. And services are supposed to be up 24/7. And a bunch of people are always logged in... You do the math.
Things break and need maintenance. If your services can't tolerate that, you need more redundancy. As for the OS updates (which are only one of the many things that can break...), they are 'pretty well' vetted by upstream so breakage is rare and your odds are better installing them than not. But you don't have to reboot right now - schedule it for a convenient time.