On 03/04/2018 11:15 PM, valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: >> I only had a system fry once >> while it was up an running since the late 1990's until today, and in >> that case it was wild power surge and the hardware was up and running in >> 20 minutes with a swap out of the hard drive. > The fact that you've kept a system going for 8 years without a reboot > isn't proof that actually doing so is a good idea security wise. > I made that point with regard to the silly notion that somehow the hardware would just magically fry periodically. On the scale I'm working at, hardware failure over decades is rare. Whether it is reasonable to expect to be able to use a kernel securely for 8 years is a problem I leave for the experts. -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
