Every wednesday should be a HUG DAY!

[Gilles Gravier]

The thing is that with Windows, you have to reboot at every other 
update... heck, even if you patch GDI, you have to reboot.

At least with Linux, you can update Xorg, and not reboot. You can update 
the office suite, and not reboot.

The situation is MUCH better with Linux than with Windows... Deja vu 
isn't really the case. :)

Gilles.

Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:38:26 +0800
> Gabriel M Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
>
>   
>> I completed another
>> kernel upgrade that required ANOTHER reboot. I have a feeling of deja vu
>> (M$). 
>>     
>
> It isn't compulsory you know :)
>
> For example:
> >From http://ubuntu.com/usn
>
> "A race condition has been discovered in the file permission handling
>   of the /proc file system. A local attacker could exploit this to
>   execute arbitrary code with full root privileges."
>
> So - do you have potential "local attackers" ? If not, I guess you don't
> need the new kernel. If you do, then you can install it and be able to
> sleep at night... or at least have a better chance of avoiding insomnia ;-)
>
> The wizards haven't yet worked out how to update the kernel in a system
> while an existing kernel is running ( joking). 
>
> Peter
>
>   

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