From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 2 22:27:19 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFBC137B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 22:27:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.netcologne.de (smtp.netcologne.de [194.8.194.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDFE643EC2 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 22:27:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tmseck-lists@netcologne.de) Received: from mail.tmseck.homedns.org (xdsl-213-168-110-118.netcologne.de [213.168.110.118]) by smtp.netcologne.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1D498666D for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 07:27:14 +0100 (MET) Received: by mail.tmseck.homedns.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3483D28422; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 07:27:09 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 07:27:08 +0100 From: Thomas Seck To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stability Message-ID: <20030103062708.GA426@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200212170023.gBH0Nvlu000764@beast.csl.sri.com> <20030103000232.GA52181@blazingdot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: private site in Germany X-PGP-KeyID: DF46EE05 X-PGP-Fingerprint: A38F AE66 6B11 6EB9 5D1A B67D 2444 2FE1 DF46 EE05 X-Attribution: tms Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * J. Scott Edwards (sedwards@xmission.com): > That is impressive. I'm curious if they stayed at a particular version or > if they update as new versions are available? I thought I read somewhere > that FreeBSD could load a new kernel without rebooting? You do not want your favourite OS to support that. Why go people that nuts about uptimes anyway? When I have to reboot to load a new kernel because of security fixes, so what? --Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message