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____/ Tony Manco on Tuesday 16 June 2009 11:10 : \____
> Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>> Tony Manco wrote:
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> ____/ Sermo Malifer on Monday 15 June 2009 13:39 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:23:04 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>>> Last night I rebooted after 100 days of uptime on a desktop
>>>>>> (Mandriva). How are the Windows users doing?
>>>>> Windows can match that feat. My work computer is up 24/7 all the
>>>>> time.
>>>>>> Does Windows Update knock them into a
>>>>>> forcible reboot cycle?
>>>>> Not unless you tell it to.
>>>>> You're barking up the wrong tree here. There's lots of reasons to
>>>>> pick Linux over Windows, but long uptimes for a desktop computer isn't
>>>>> one of
>>>>> them. What would it matter to somebody who turns their computer off
>>>>> every night, anyway?
>>>> I got the impression that Windows needs a reboot for almost every patch
>>>> to take effect. I only reboot when the kernel is updated.
>>>>
>>> I'm sure that soon, no one using Linux will need to reboot after a
>>> kernel update :-P
>>>
>>
>> Projects which want to achieve just that are well on their way
>
> Indeed!
I think it's already merged into the next RC.
BTW, Linux updates require reboot for kernel /security/ updates. The rest can
wait. When was the last time Linux had a critical vulnerability? The Debian
OpenSSL bug didn't require a reboot.
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