On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:34:04PM -0600, Fritz Whittington wrote: > On or about 2004-01-07 15:46, Benjamin J. Weiss whipped out a trusty #2 > pencil and scribbled: > > >From: "robin laing" <robin.laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ><snip> > > > > > >>I have run linux on computers for months without reboots being required, > >>even after doing updates/upgrades, unlike windows. > >> > >> > > > >Except after all of these kernel upgrades, where you have to restart for > >the > >new kernel to take effect. :) > > > >Ben > > > > > Well, yeah, but there are at least two levels of "required" reboots: > <snip> > The important thing > is that even with a kernel upgrade, you get to choose when. Oh, I agree! I was just playing with you! :) btw, this is my first post on a test machine running mutt, hopefully set up to respond properly to mailing lists. If this message is malformed, please let me know. Thx, Ben