Thankfully, fewer reboots and maximized uptime will become a feature in most distro/OSs. *RHEL has kpatch* https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/overcoming-vulnerabilities-live-kernel-patchi... *Ubuntu has Live kernel patching and the new needrestart package* https://ubuntu.com/blog/an-overview-of-live-kernel-patching https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-server-21-10 *Windows 2022 (đđđ)* https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-server-essentials-and/windows... Hopefully the future will have fewer reboots since the pace of vulnerabilities doesn't seem to be slowing down at all. I, for one, am very happy to see the technology maturing to match reality. đ Enjoy the weekend! On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 10:06 AM Michael Voorhis via WLUG < wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
Additionally if you never reboot, how do you know the machine WILL reboot? How do you know what the system will do after a power failure, etc? Fate will intervene at some point and force you to reboot whether you want to or not, so you should be prepared with the knowledge of how the system will respond to that.
On 4/21/22 09:54, David Glaser via WLUG wrote:
It you kept it up all of the time, how would you apply updates that require a re-boot?