Is a restart REALLY required after an upgrade?

[Antony Gelberg]

C Hamel wrote:
> I have read, time and again, that w/Linux the reboot is optional.  Still, I 
> nearly always reboot just to make certain.  The main reason I do that is when 
> I was running SuSE I was constantly running into trouble.  Things would work 
> just fine after an update ...until I rebooted.  Gentoo, ditto.  Consequently, 
> rebooting post-update became a habit I will not soon break.

It's a shame you were tainted by those nutty distros.  ;)