atrocity;440876 Wrote: > I can't speak for any version other than Ubuntu, but I've had to reboot > my Linux box due to updates *far* more often than I've had to reboot > Vista.
That's really pretty odd. I have no experience with Ubuntu, but generally reboots are reserved for updates to the Linux kernel itself. Even if you install every minor security update, that's a pretty rare event (and the security updates are usually well-documented, so you actually have enough info to decide if you even really need to install it). With Vista you get 11+ reboots a year, pretty much guaranteed. My guess is: Ubuntu must frequently update the kernel for non-security reasons, OR you've got a "poisoned" kernel with some binary-only (NVIDIA?) driver, and you need to co-upgrade your kernel every time you upgrade your video driver (and even then, you must be updating the driver for non-security reasons) Either way, I think it's safe to say you *need* to reboot Linux a lot less than Windows. Whether you actually *do* or not is another matter. -- CatBus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65585 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
