No More Need To Reboot Fedora w/ Ksplice

An anonymous reader writes "Ksplice, the technology that allows Linux kernel updates without a reboot, is now free for users of the Fedora distribution. Using Ksplice is like 'replacing your car's engine while speeding down the highway,' and it can potentially save your Linux systems from a lot of downtime. Since Fedora users often live on the bleeding edge of Linux development, Ksplice makes it even easier to do so, and without reboots!"

Comments

LOL Linux users

[Anonymous Coward]

Why don't you fools just buy a mac and get it done? You people spend SO much time trying to replicate the advanced technology of OS X with bizarre unusable hacks like this, why not simply buy a mac and get REAL WORK DONE?

Haven't touched a Fedora kernel

[Anonymous Coward]

Since that bug with the exec-shield patch that occasionally killed a perfectly innocent process.

It will probably just add more bugs which no-one will notice or care about, since all the developers are already busy with Fedora N+1 before Fedora N is even released, and no-one else uses Fedora anyway.

Then somebody will release some update which breaks the updater, again.

Re:interesting

[PocariSweat1991]

That means there's libre-free software and a service provided by a non-distro company which is, for selected distros, gratis-free. For now.

I like your Latin-based distinction of "free" better than the free-as-in-beer v.s. free-as-in-speech method.
I'll have to remember it for the next time I give a speech on OSS at the Roman senate.

Solving non-problems

[Anonymous Coward]

Because rebooting your computer is just so unbearable. Well, I certainly fucking hate seeing the stupid logo filling up. Its a symbol of the unending quest to dumb down everything. Perhaps someone should start writing the replacement for systemd now, since most things never even got converted to upstart... or is everyone too busy making GNOME look like KDE and KDE look like GNOME?

I think what ksplice really needs is better integration with pulseaudio.

Re:how about is linux with memory leaks?

[Sir_Lewk]

SIGKILL dude, `kill -9 pid` will take care of it...

unless you are referring to zombie processes, in which case: who cares? They don't consume shit for resources, and they almost never happen unless you go out of your way to make it happen.