Impressive uptime! I think my running average on the Linux boxes I have are about 170 days before I do my semiannual kernel patches (unless there is someting severe that I cant harden through sysctl.conf)
We had a couple of AIX boxes that had to be rebooted a while back. They'd been up for 5+ years. The admins were afraid to reboot because it had been so long. One of those boxes had some weirdness going on with it. For some reason it thought it had been up for 11,000 years. I figure that was a bug. Not even AIX is that stable. ;-)
How do I patch a Kernel and why would I want to?
Why wouldn't I turn my computer off at the end of the day if I'm not a file server that needs to run 24/7?
Does Linux run the latest version of Doom?
How about Hitman 2: Silent Assassin? (a personal fave)
Why can't Knoppix carry the good version of Mahjong (Gnome)?
I hate to ask these things in a Linux thread, but I still can't find any reason that the vast, vast majority of computer users need Linux or a computer that runs for years without shutting off. (other than playing Gnome Mahjong which is great)