[sllabres]

>> Kernel panics don't happen nearly as often as they used to

My earliest kernel I have used in something one might call production are 1.2.12 around 1995. I must say even then, with this early kernels I had no panics at all and much higher uptimes (patching for security wasn't as much of an issue at that time ;-) )

[not2b]

There were many exploitable remote root holes then, but no one was attacking them because Windows was a much juicier target.