On Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 3:45:28 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > 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
Right now as I write this a libssl security update. No suggested reboot But I should be rebooting if I were paranoid about security -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
