Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:38:41 -0500 From: Bob Martin <bob@buckhorn.net> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD entry on Wikipedia Message-ID: <42B76191.1040402@buckhorn.net> In-Reply-To: <6F2F8FD3FBCF7A489CB18912A4807EBA0E0851@mvwcim1a.acuson.com> References: <6F2F8FD3FBCF7A489CB18912A4807EBA0E0851@mvwcim1a.acuson.com>
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Linux uptimes roll over at 400 days, so the comment was to off set the whining. IMHO, if they can roll out a patch to a major security flaw in a day, they should have been able to fix the uptime clock at some point in the last decade. Odd that MS can do something that Linux can't. Bob Martin Johnson David wrote: > From: Andrew L. Gould [mailto:algould@datawok.com] > >>For those of you who haven't seen it, FreeBSD has an entry >>in Wikipedia: > > > The Netcraft sentence is quite strange. Instead of just saying FreeBSD has > the longest uptime at Netcraft, it's prefixed with "of the operating systems > that accurately report uptime remotely". It's like saying "of all the people > who actually ran the Boston Marathon, Joe was the fastest." > > Looking at the discussion and history, there's a bit of controversy over > this. In my mind, if you don't compete you don't get a prize. > > David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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