Comment by adiabatichottub
7 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)
Well, my experience on the stable release branches is that there aren't all that many kernel updates, so if you keep your services patched then you really only need to reboot about every 6 months.
> … stable … about every 6 months.
Maybe slightly optimistic.
https://bokut.in/freebsd-patch-level-table/#stable/13
https://bokut.in/freebsd-patch-level-table/#stable/14
https://bokut.in/freebsd-patch-level-table/#stable/15