ptribble

One thing about Tribblix on SPARC is that it tracks x86 pretty closely, but actual releases come at different times. What this means right now is that while Tribblix on x86 is effectively in freeze while I work through a bunch of breaking changes, many of those changes are now available on SPARC. While this may seem a bit odd, the reality is that not all the breaking changes apply to SPARC at all (I'm not planning to update perl or gcc there, even though I want to, because the updates won't even build properly), and even those that do are less appropriate (such as desktop updates like bumping the Xfce version). The one visible change that people might see is the python switch from 3.12 to 3.13.

And on another tack, a new ISO for Tribblix on SPARC:

https://www.tribblix.org/download.html#sparc

Of course, I post this, and almost immediately realize that the latest Jenkins LTS release 2.555.1 has gone and bumped the minimum Java version to 21.

Can't post the numbers because I no longer have access, but I strongly suspect the OmniOS systems I built at a prior employer haven't been proactively rebooted since I left. Which would give them about 4-5 years of uptime. Even when I was there we wouldn't reboot production systems unnecessarily - and most application updates, which were the most frequent, don't really warrant a reboot.