>> Kernel panics don't happen nearly as often as they used to My earliest kernel I have used in something one might call production are 1.2.12 around 1995. I m

>> Kernel panics don't happen nearly as often as they used to My earliest kernel I have used in something one might call production are 1.2.12 around 1995. I must say even then, with this early kernels I had no panics at all and much higher uptimes (patching for security wasn't as much of an issue at that time ;-) )