Comment by grahamjperrin

5 hours ago

> … 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

Fair, but to my point none of those security patches for 14.2 or 14.3 that required a reboot were critical for our use case. I'm more worried about people's crappy Wordpress blogs getting hacked.

>> … stable … about every 6 months.

> Maybe slightly optimistic.

The longest without rebooting two prod FreeBSD servers I was once responsible for, including applying userland patches, was roughly 3000 days (just over 8 years).

  • My DigitalOcean FreeBSD droplet chugging along: 7:25AM up 1707 days, 15 hrs, 5 users, load averages: 0.30, 0.21, 0.17

    Too bad they dropped support for it.