On Wednesday 17 March 2010 09:00:55 am Andras Simon wrote: > On 3/17/10, Konstantin Svist <fry.kun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 03/16/2010 01:41 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> How times have changed. It used to be that *NIX supporters put > >> the output from uptime in their e-mails, some of which were > >> years. It was a symbol of how stable the releases were, and > >> how stable the machines running them were. > >> > >> Now people "look forward" to their next reboot and even re install. > >> > >> It's an interesting social change, I guess. It's like being a proud owner of a good well-kept old-timer car, versus being a proud owner of the latest Ferrari model. Not a social change, but rather different userbase. > >> A "rolling release" is not possible when one changes versions > >> of the compiler, in general, unless one uses only statically > >> linked images. I don't foresee that happening. How does the Rawhide handle these compiler version bumps? And Arch Linux? > > Well, a lot of people use laptops nowadays... I use my laptop as primary > > workstation at work and take it home every day, for example. > > That is no excuse :-) > > [simon@localhost tmp]$ uptime > 09:55:55 up 87 days, 22:58, 6 users, load average: 0.41, 0.39, 0.30 > > This is on an eee pc that is pm-suspended when not in use. How about the output of "uname -r" on that machine? ;-) Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
