• cbarrickEnglish
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    How many people are actually using kexec to update Linux without rebooting?

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      You only rarely update the kernel though

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        Yeah, only four times this week. Rolling distro life.

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        Windows is very lazy about reboots. Minesweeper changed? Better reboot.

        Chrome also got infected with this laziness. It used to be that you had to restart chrome once a month, now it’s almost every day. Among many other reasons, that’s why I’m happy to be using Firefox again.

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      Ubuntu has live patching free for personal use built right in. It’s not exactly a niche thing.

      (I don’t bother on most machines because I reboot my laptops every day anyway, but you know; nice for servers and whatnot).