Say Goodbye to Reboots with Ksplice
Linux is famous for uptime, but even it has to reboot when a new kernel vulnerability is fixed. Or does it? Now there’s Ksplice, technology that applies patches directly into the running kernel. And thanks to their free Uptrack service it’s free for users of Ubuntu!
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Linux is famous for its stability and for having computers which have been online without being rebooted for years at a time. Indeed, among the geek community the longer your computer has been online the more “respect” you get. It’s called “uptime”, the amount of time your computer has been up for without needing a reboot. Due to its open source nature, new security holes are found and fixed constantly on Linux distributions. Many of these updates are for user space applications such as web servers, databases, office programs and the wider desktop environment. Distributions will package these fixes and distribute them via the standard package management system, however via this method applications and daemons need to be restarted in order to load the new safe program. When it comes to the Linux kernel itself, the usual way to achieve this is to reboot the computer. Naturally, this also means…
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