From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 1 16:48:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07CC037B4D7 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 16:48:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22845; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 11:18:27 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 11:18:26 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Greg Black , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD in good standing in netcraft survey Cc: David Preece Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ 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