servers vs. workstations, was Re: just in case you missed it

[der.hans]

Am 09. May, 2001 schwäzte Trent Shipley so:

> Hm.  I wonder how many security updates could be done without a shutdown.
> (There is something to be said for the ability to do rolling updates in a
> cluster -- even if it is a minimal failover cluster.)

Lots. I run debian testing on several boxen ( used to run unstable before
testing was available ). I have months of uptime before my power vendor
arranges for unscheduled downtime. That's updates on hundreds of packages,
dozens that I use on a regular basis.

Usually at some point X really, really wants to be restarted since I'm
running a version from 3 updates back :). Other than that I really don't
have any probs. I would think I should, but I don't :).

ciao,

der.hans
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