How long without patching the base system?

From: MaXX (bs139412_at_skynet.be)
Date: 11/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:23:13 +0100

I take some time to keep my systems fully patched, for my ports I'm happy
with portaudit.
But for the base system, I'm not aware of such a tool. Is there any?
How often a base system must be rebuilt?

I felt from my chair to see that FreeBSD has 9 of the 10 most longuest
uptimes on Netcraft (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html) and
almost half of the top 50. Does that means those (base)systems were never
updated in 1700 days for some of them?
Netcraft data can be innacurate and/or reflect the uptime of an appliance
but the amount of FreeBSD/BSD OS machines is just amazing...

Thanks 

-- 
MaXX

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