Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On 7/29/26 14:42, rbowman wrote:
> 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.

   The "updates" usually aren't much.

   EXCEPT perhaps browsers ... the Bad Guys are
   constantly trying to infiltrate browsers. It's
   an ongoing war, kinda in the literal sense.