### PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT ### THE LINUX KERNEL HAD A SECURITY UPDATE ON 08 MAR 2017 UPDATE AND REBOOT YOUR SYSTEM ### PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT ###
I am but a pleb who does updates and logs in as root
Henry Gonzalez
I try not to let a box go without a reboot for more than a month. Especially since the OS will probably have a major update in that time period. My VM server pictured was just rebooted the other day to finish updates.
Mason Edwards
this is the my longest uptime. had to shut it down today though
>keeping your pc on while you're not using it >wasting electricity >spending money to accomplish nothing
Austin Ross
>implying we're posting our desktop specs >implying we don't put our PCs to sleep when we don't use them >implying our computer doesn't do something useful in idle time like help research or mine butt-coins.
[root@server ~]# uptime 13:19:11 up 50 days, 12:44, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0. 0 Arch Linux server
[@arch ~]$ uptime 13:23:48 up 15 days, 17:58, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0 00 Arch Linux desktop
Hudson Perez
you get uptime with linux you can rely on linux
Samuel Powell
what?
Jace Martinez
it doesn't reboot randomly (windows reboots randomly)
don't you know anything?
Parker Moore
so? what does that have to do with uptime? maybe I just woke up and turned my computer on 2 minutes ago
Nicholas James
>keeping your pc on while you're not using it Ever heard or a thing called server? msql server uptime (of server, ofc) gives you a clue how well a machine is maintained.