[GRLUG] Smoothwall

[Nick Reid]

thats true.
but the point was as Godwin was pointing out that he had an uptime over
400 days. he might have security kernel issues but still its still up
and running.

Windows can't keep that kind of uptime as it leaks memory like a siv
most of the time. (i stress most of the time, just so i don't get that
one guy with a 400 day uptime) And windows has updates and
vulnerabilities come out daily. so rebooting that is a regular
occurance.



On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 23:35 -0500, Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
> Nick Reid wrote:
> > thats great uptime, 
> > 
> > a friend of mine in NYC posted his uptime to our cclub list.
> > he was at like 689days.
> > 
> > Beat that windows!
> 
> Regrettably kernel security holes have been discovered in the last 689 days. 
> (Please don't make me look one up.) And a reboot is required to implement a new, 
> patched, kernel. Consequently any linux machine up that long must be vulnerable. 
> At least so it seems to me.
> 
> Raymond McLaughlin
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