There's a new technology in town for the Linux operating system called Ksplice Uptrack. With this system in place you can now update your system — even the kernel — without a single reboot.
Let me say that again — EVEN THE KERNEL! What exactly does that mean? You know all of those promises made by other OS vendors who claim a near 100 per cent uptime with their machines? What happens to those machines when you install a service pack that does anything to the kernel? Time for a reboot. (Actually it doesn't even require a kernel-level update to require a reboot.)
We all know (or should know) that the Linux operating system is an amazingly stable OS. Uptime numbers can be staggering in comparison to other OSes. I can go months on end without a single reboot — only to have to do so when the kernel was touched by an upgrade. And now the ante has been seriously upped, because even those kernel updates won't mean a reboot.
Zero reboots. Period.
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