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Ksplice Offers Rebootless Updates For Ubuntu Systems
sdasher writes "Ksplice has started offering Ksplice Uptrack for Ubuntu Jaunty, a free service that delivers rebootless versions of all the latest Ubuntu kernel security updates. It's currently available for both the 32 and 64-bit generic kernel, and they plan to add support for the virtual and server kernels by the end of the month, according to their FAQ. This makes Ubuntu the first OS that doesn't need to be rebooted for security updates. (We covered Ksplice's underlying technology when it was first announced a year ago.)"
Read up on Windows "Hot Patching". Windows Server 2003 supports this, and so has every version of NT since then.
Here are some links:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897341 -- Explains HotPatching, which revs of the NT kernel support it, and which patches are set up for hot patching.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173507(VS.80).aspx -- Explains how to compile images for use with hotpatching in Visual C++
Seriously, get your facts straight. Windows has been doing this for 6 years.
You could update without a box reboot in windows 3.0, 3.1 and 3.11 =P
Firefox: Good internet browser.
Yet it works far better on Windows than it does on Linux. Firefox makes its money off Windows; Linux is a second-class citizen
Evolution: Email client and reminders.
Inferior in every way to Outlook, absolutely crash-tastic, and poor interfacing with Exchange Server (which the rest of the world uses, so that's kind of important).
Tomboy (oops it uses mono): Keep track of notes, can load specific notes for a day. Helpful for Todo lists.
Also runs on Windows.
Calculator: Normal 4 function calculator with scientific mode if needed.
Is this a fucking joke? Is this supposed to be a good reason to use Linux? Come on.
CD/DVD Burner: works well.
It's gotten a lot better, yes. Not being able to use something like Alex Feinman's ISO Recorder kind of sucks, though. Shell extensions are (sometimes) a good thing.
Screenshot Tool: press printscreen, save picture. Much better than Windows where you press the printscreen button and open up Paint to save it.
You cannot be serious about this being something important. There are also ten thousand similar tools on Windows, and no, it coming packaged with the distribution means precisely shit-all.
Pidgin: All in one IM client. Very customizable.
Works on Windows. Works better on Windows.
OpenOffice Word: can open all MS Office documents and is a good Office clone.
Do you even know what the fuck you're using? It's OpenOffice Writer. It is also a substandard Office 2003 clone at best. OO.o nitwits sneer at Office 2007, but guess what? The ribbon is really, really awesome, the ability to separate content from presentation has never been better, on-the-fly theming is leaps and bounds better than anything ever done by Microsoft or the open-source world before, and--oh yeah--people actually use Office, so there are a ton of handy plugins for a lot of different uses.
OpenOffice Calc is also a really bad Excel knockoff, and doesn't even bother to be compatible with the overwhelming majority of Excel features. OpenOffice doesn't even have anything remotely similar to OneNote or Groove, both of which are incredibly useful, albeit in different contexts (I keep all my school notes in OneNote, and Groove is a great wide-area document synchronization system). About the only part of OpenOffice that is better than Microsoft Office is Base, and frankly you shouldn't be using Access or Base.
Rhythmbox Music Player: Keep track of music, works with lots of USB MP3 players (including iPods).
And yet it doesn't fucking approach the level of user-friendliness or compatibility that even Windows Media Player does. And I hate Windows Media Player. For fuck's sake, it isn't even as good as iTunes! At least if you'd said Banshee you would have been talking about a project done by good people who have the potential to come up with something really cool. (Banshee is getting really good really fast, but I still wouldn't want it over Winamp.)
Totem Movie Player: Limited at first, but when you can't play something, it will prompt you to install the needed codec.
Again, you offer as a "good thing" one of the worst possible options! Then again, if you'd said VLC (the only really decent option on Linux), I could have just pointed out that it runs on Windows too...
Add/Remove: Miles ahead of anything MacOSX and Microsoft has EVER done. Takes care of everything FOR you: downloading, updating, installing, etc. Just search for what you want through the left side or in the search tab.
Yes, the ability to handle packages is nice. Unless what you want isn't in the repositories, in which case you
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."