A "Never Reboot" Service For Linux

An anonymous reader writes "Ksplice, the company based on the MIT Ksplice project, is now offering its 'never reboot' service for Red Hat, Debian, and other Linux distros. You subscribe and get real-time kernel security updates that apply in-memory instead of rebooting. Last summer we discussed the free service for Ubuntu. Cool tech, but will people really pay $4 a month for this?"

Comments

Yes, they are.

[KingSkippus]

Stating the obvious, yes, they are.

But third-party companies are under no obligation to offer their products and/or services for free, and this is a service of a third-party company (Ksplice).

If there is a demand for this service, plus an unwillingness to pay Ksplice for it, it's entirely possible (and likely) that someone will come along and offer an open source equivalent. But until the itch is scratched, Ksplice is perfectly within the right to offer the service at a cost.

Re:Huh?

[Donniedarkness]

Nothing bad about it, it's just that sometimes it causes a few problems.

I do tech support at a school. The moment that something goes offline (like our mail server), we start getting calls telling us that things are messed up.

Before anyone asks: Yes, we try our best to only reboot after-hours, and yes, we tell everyone when a service will be down.