[PLUG] Fedora Core 2 (?)

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Wed May 26 20:06:02 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 09:03, Steven Raymond wrote:
> > If they have not rebooted in 850 days, then they have a whole bunch of
> > security issues to deal with.
> 
> Someone was telling me that Solaris can have kernel updates without
> rebooting.  Is that fact true, and does Linux have any similar capability?

People have tried doing hot kernel swapping.  It is pretty hard to do
and VERY experimental.  I have not seen anything on it in the last year
or so, so i have no idea how far they got.

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