I once did some contracting work for a company that had 1400 day uptimes on a couple of FreeBSD VMs. This was a 100 million dollar (in revenue) firm. You’d thin

I once did some contracting work for a company that had 1400 day uptimes on a couple of FreeBSD VMs. This was a 100 million dollar (in revenue) firm. You’d think they have applied a patch and rebooted at least once in almost 5 years. Nope. It was mostly a Windows “enterprise” shop and they were scared to even touch Unix systems. The guy who set it up originally either quit or was fired, I forget. Apparently the key is doing nothing.