Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late Date: 29 Jul 2026 18:42:05 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <1145p0t$2l6ge$2@dont-email.me> <18c5f3fa510bcd73$19925$704772$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <18c606426ab89e70$22171$442584$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <18c60b7e803d0104$14391$197624$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <1147up9$39shm$3@dont-email.me> <18c6320c52eb0a0f$15335$967852$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <114crfe$rjmv$3@dont-email.me> <20260729080407.0000667a@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 45eD/bs75QvzAwEdOselRwLFqOwJj2+Epq87doJqZ5Lm0/TcBk Cancel-Lock: sha1:vKxQGV16pgQI9QDhq7iTT9DSuAU= sha256:aRnC3gdoI+wrBeVQlBY0HdowNhezB84LFDFm94aLMF8= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:89203 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.