Kevin,

I think it's also important to note that the Linux development has been
blazingly fast over the last few years, and systems that are running
the same version of Linux for 3 years are rare.  (I have one, a 486 that
is running Linux 1.2.10, which I used to write this e-mail in fact.)

However, even that system has been rebooted 5 or 6 times in those 5
years, due to a motherboard failure, 3 moves, and a couple of extended
power outages.  [BUT NEVER A SOFTWARE-RELATED CRASH, IN ITS LIFE.]

Here's its uname, notice when the kernel was last compiled:

[577] ducktape:/ockers > uname -a
Linux ducktape 1.2.10 #7 Sat Nov 4 16:31:36 MST 1995 i486

If I was using this system for serious business I would have upgraded
its kernel since 1995 since there are so many nifty new features that
I would want to use which are only recently becoming available in
the new kernels.  Also, the hardware nowadays is so nifty I probably
would be using new hardware, if this was for serious business.

This is not to say that development on *BSD has stagnated, but simply
that Linux development is revving so quickly that it seems like every
6 months it's a whole new OS!!  I would even go so far as to say that
the rate of development is increasing (accelerating).

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