From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 20 02:03:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1EF816A41F for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 02:03:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from quakenet1@optusnet.com.au) Received: from mail23.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail23.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.133.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5467F43D46 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 02:03:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from quakenet1@optusnet.com.au) Received: from [10.0.0.3] (c220-239-13-242.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.13.242]) by mail23.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7K22kY2004828 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:03:30 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) References: <6ECB363F-1ACE-40E8-AE86-73C7C010CC11@optusnet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jerahmy Pocott Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:03:29 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) Subject: Re: Long Uptime X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 02:03:33 -0000 On 20/08/2005, at 11:34 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > You can keep a windows 2000 system secure without patching!: > > * Uninstall Outlook Express and IE ( http://www.litepc.com/ ), Install > Firefox and Thunderbird. > * Install Perl, Uninstall WSH. > * Hardware (m0n0wall) and software (stealth mode, deny all (Kerio, > ZoneAlarm, etc.)) firewalls. > * Virus scanner. > * Remove MS JVM, install Sun's. > * MS Office replaced with OpenOffice (Don't install Outlook!!!). > * Subscribe to CERT advisories list. > > I had a running average of 30-40 days between reboots, I think the > highest was 90+ days, on my main do everything and anything desktop PC > (it runs FreeBSD, 6-STABLE, now). > Many updates are for core things that require reboots though.. As a desktop you can get away with it.. As a server I don't think I would take the risk.. Also, in my experience windows systems start running quite slow after about 3 days of heavy load due to memory leaks and the like, which isn't so noticeable with just a web server, but on databases it gets horrible.. When I used windows I pretty much rebooted every 3-5 days due to loss in performance.. I guess newer versions might have less leaks.. But it is just as likely they have more!