On 3/17/10, Konstantin Svist <fry....@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/16/2010 01:41 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: >> How times have changed. It used to be that *NIX supporters put >> the output from uptime in their e-mails, some of which were >> years. It was a symbol of how stable the releases were, and >> how stable the machines running them were. >> >> Now people "look forward" to their next reboot and even re install. >> >> It's an interesting social change, I guess. >> >> A "rolling release" is not possible when one changes versions >> of the compiler, in general, unless one uses only statically >> linked images. I don't foresee that happening. >> >> Mike >> > > Well, a lot of people use laptops nowadays... I use my laptop as primary > workstation at work and take it home every day, for example.
That is no excuse :-) [si...@localhost tmp]$ uptime 09:55:55 up 87 days, 22:58, 6 users, load average: 0.41, 0.39, 0.30 This is on an eee pc that is pm-suspended when not in use. > As for desktops - power outages happen at least 2-3 times a year anyway Of course, there are ways around that... Andras -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
