On Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 7:53:10 AM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 09:29 am, Ian Kelly wrote: > > > >> There's a big difference between > >> that and clocking a year of uptime just because you can, though. > > > > What other reason is there for having a year of uptime? > > > > It's not like it is difficult. My laptop doesn't actually go anywhere: for > > historical reasons, it's a laptop but it is (mostly) used as a desktop. It > > sits on my desk. If there's a power outage, the handy built-in UPS > > (battery) keeps it alive for an hour or two. I come in, I nudge the mouse > > to wake xscreensaver and authenticate; I do my work; then I run > > xscreensaver to lock the screen and leave. > > > > If I need access to something from home, I can SSH into the office network, > > and from there into the laptop. > > > > The OS is as stable as the surface of the moon, and simply doesn't crash or > > go down ever. (If only Firefox was as good, alas, but when it does crash it > > is nearly always because I've allowed Javascript to run on some popular, > > multimedia-rich, information-free website.) I don't reboot because I don't > > need to reboot. Why would you reboot just for the sake of rebooting? > > Software updates? The nice thing about *nix systems is that *most* > updates don't require a reboot. I'm still going to reboot any time > there's a kernel update though, and those are fairly frequent. I could > read the patch notes to determine whether this new kernel version is > actually important, but it takes less of my time just to go ahead and > reboot.
Dunno what systems you folks use... My ubuntu(s) 15.10 seem to (my estimates not hard data) - update every couple of days - kernel/security updates every 2-3 weeks "Stable as the surface of the moon"?? Well thats strong The other day I - aptitude purge-d the kernel I was running on [I was trying to show off to someone that ubuntu would not allow that!] - machine kept running merrily but thereafter aptitude crashed - Until I rebooted an older kernel; installed the one I had removed and rebooted to that -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list