Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 11:18:26 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: David Preece <davep@afterswish.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD in good standing in netcraft survey Message-ID: <XFMail.001102111826.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <nospam-3a00b88f2801c8e@maxim.gbch.net>
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[ Redirected to -chat ] On 02-Nov-00 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 its not broken why fix it? :) > 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. I disagree, if it ain't broke don't upgrade it. Noone provides a guarantee that the newer code has a functionality superset of the old, and indeed the newer code sometimes has old driver chopped (for good reasons usually :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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