uptime wars (was Re: [ILUG] Firewall Overhead.)

[Colin Whittaker]

here we go 

ios# uname -a
FreeBSD ios.internet-ireland.ie 2.2.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE #0:
Tue Jan 19 20:08:15 GMT 1999
	root at ios2.internet-ireland.ie:/usr/src/sys/compile/JS-January1999  i386
ios# uptime
 5:43PM  up 431 days, 21:21, 8 users, load averages: 0.38, 0.26, 0.26
ios# 

Donncha O Caoimh stated the following on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 05:31:25PM +0100 :
> One of our development Linux servers here which gets an awful bashing
> everyday shows an uptime of 172 days.. I'm dreading the next power cut!
> 
> Donncha.
> 
> Lars Hecking wrote:
> > 
> > [OpenBSD ...]
> > > FreeBSD is nearly as secure,
> > 
> >  Interesting claim, especially if you look at the number of *BSD Security
> >  Advisories on bugtraq.
> > 
> > >            and can be made to be if you want. It also does _not_ crash :)
> > 
> >  Very likely, yes and yes :) And btw, I've had Solaris up to 90+ without
> >  crashing, too, but SPARC hardware is in a different league :)
> 
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