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I have a dual pentium 90 box. Its not good for much, and really the only reason i'm even messing with it is because dual pentium 90's is pretty cool in a geeky way.
I use fedora for everything linux I do, but fedora is too bleeding edge for what I want to do with this box (set a personal uptime record), and there are too many updates that require rebooting. Whats a good distro that will _require_ little to no rebooting? im shooting for 2+ years uptime.
I would have thought anything with a kernel prior to about 2.2 would be pretty good.
Have a look (and contribute if you feel so inclined) to (public) current kernel stats at here.
2+ years uptime! I would be impressed!! Buy a good UPS then!!
My debian doesn't need any reboot.
Btw what's the maximum on this website? http://uptime.netcraft.com/
My debian never asked me to reboot (except for kernel upgrades). What exactly do you want to do on your system? If you just want to set an uptime record, you don't actually need to perform any updates, and any distribution should do.
I went with debian sarge. Seems the logical choice, since its so outdated, (not flamebait) that it shouldnt need reboots very often. All the bugs would be fixed in it. Or so my theory goes.
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