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Comment by grahamjperrin

3 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).