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> There was never any theory that Linux doesn't need reboots to update the kernel. Yet people keep saying that on HN, that unlike Windows, you don't need to re
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> There was never any theory that Linux doesn't need reboots to update the kernel.
Yet people keep saying that on HN, that unlike Windows, you don't need to reboot Linux after updating, and then maybe mention how they have months of uptime.
By default Ubuntu, the most popular distro, updates the kernel too. And frequently the kernel update is a security update.
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agoWhat you're trying to imply here is that linux effectively needs to be reboot on every update, and you're wrong. It's possible your cloud provider has chosen to have its own package repository where they insist on doing this, but this is a decision by your cloud provider and not Canonical. Linux has what's called Kernel Modules that can be unloaded and loaded at runtime without the need to update the kernel itself. I myself run ubuntu in vmware, and have done so for probably over 10 years, and your description of Ubuntu's default behavior is inaccurate. --- But more than that, it's been explained to you, stop arguing.
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agoActually, I'm going to add to my earlier reply here. The amount of harm "security" people have wrought to everyone else around them is astronomical. I don't doubt your cloud provider made that decision, it's yet another example of security people forcing major inconveniences on everyone else in the name of protecting them. It might even be warranted here (it probably is), but I would almost put money on 85-90% of terrible situations in software dev having a root in a security person somewhere. That sounds outlandish, yet it completely matches my experience.