Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:04:07 -0700, John Ames wrote:

> Does anybody really care about boot times anymore? *nix uptimes can
> generally be measured in months or years, and off an SSD even my pokey
> little Eee 904 (running Devuan with sysvinit) goes from zero to display
> manager in less than a minute.

Ah, the good old days... My Fedora box had almost 4 days of uptime before 
'dnf needs-restarting' said it need to reboot for the latest kernel and 
systemd.  Even stodgy old Mint is getting a new kernel. I don't update 
that one as frequently so it's up to 18 days 9 minutes. At least Leap only 
got a new Python today.

I suppose I could ignore the updates but in my experience that way can 
lead to disaster when you finally do try.

I do agree that with everything up 24/7 unless I'm doing updates a cold 
reboot isn't a problem for me.