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A long time ago, I had desktops with huge uptimes. The world has changed. I will no longer go that long without a security update. Too much is now passing throu
by mcculley 3y ago
A long time ago, I had desktops with huge uptimes. The world has changed. I will no longer go that long without a security update. Too much is now passing through my machine.
- tasuki 3y agoNone of my machines were ever hacked and I regularly run a year old kernel. I guess I'm an uninteresting target.
- mcculley 3y ago(As far as you know, none of your machines were ever hacked.) Your luck is not good security policy. When I was getting started with Linux in 1992 and only intermittently connected to the Internet via dial-up, I celebrated long uptimes. Now that I do daily banking and other activities on a machine continuously connected to the Internet, uptimes longer than the interval between kernel security updates is just irresponsible behavior. I would prefer to not have to reboot. I know that is not the world we live in. The stability of the kernel is no longer the reason to think about uptime. I don't care that you have nothing of value connected to the Internet. I am objecting to the advice about not rebooting.