[allegory]

How often do you reboot your kit? Boot time is such a stupid metric even on laptops and stuff where you just suspend/hibernate.

My BSD systems (not front-facing and therefore on a lesser patch cycle) rarely get rebooted and neither do the processes so this is indeed moot for me.

Proof:

http://i.imgur.com/tZsM82Q.png

Yes that's a memcached uptime on a host that has had 10,185,367,932 cache hits...

[_delirium]

Suspend/hibernate on free unixes is a nightmare of incomplete support and buggy drivers, so not much of a solution. I'm don't know a single person who has a working laptop suspend/resume setup on FreeBSD (though it's theoretically possible), and it's not usually recommended to rely on it even if you could get it working. Linux has somewhat more complete support, but it's still very hit or miss, and it's common for stuff to be wonky after a resume, even when it does work.

[allegory]

I'll give you that to a degree. It does suck on FreeBSD with my X201. Nothing works but I'm being cheeky now and running it in VirtualBox on top of windows (which I need for other work).

OpenBSD however works wonderfully.