[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Paul Sture]

In article <4dd4e377$0$49041$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl>,
 MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 19-5-2011 4:13, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > [M]y experience with XP, where you need to reboot every other week be-
> > cause  of updates.
> > (And then of course, I have the occasional crash as well, but reboots
> > are almost always happening long before I have any uptime to speak
> > about, so who knows what happens to an XP system that is up for more
> > than two months. I've not seen a single one that didn't need a reboot
> > long before that.)
> 
> My experiences with XP, or any Windows for that matter, are similar if
> not the same.
> 

The reboots for updates drive me nuts (Windows 7 and Server 2008).  In 
contrast my Linux systems will happily apply multiple updates without 
requiring a reboot.

-- 
Paul Sture