Comment by adiabatichottub
4 hours ago
> I have FreeBSD servers that I have not touched for years, and they have worked 24/7 with no downtime and no rebooting, and this includes servers connected directly to the Internet, which implement firewalls, routers and various services, like NTP, DNS servers and proxies, e-mail servers, web servers and proxies etc.
Same. We've got qmail config files with 2006 as the mtime
"with no downtime and no rebooting"
So, no patching. I used to boast about my NetWare server uptimes but that is so noughties 8)