On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:44:16 +0000, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 23:36, Don wrote: >> With MS Windows, it seems a reboot is required after nearly every >> software update. > In principle, the only update for which a reboot is needed is Linux (since > it is the most common kernel of the GNU system), but even this may change > in the future. That would be good, it would certainly massively cut downtime on servers. The only way I can think of implementing this would be to perform a kind of quick suspend/resume, where the "resume" remaps to a new running kernel, but surely all services and current tasks would need to be restarted too. - K.
