Messages in this thread | | | From | KOSAKI Motohiro <> | Subject | Re: Ksplice updates for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty | Date | Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:51:18 +0900 (JST) |
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> Hello, > > The Ksplice team [1] is now providing rebootless kernel updates for Ubuntu > 9.04 Jaunty to anyone who configures their machine to receive them [2]. > In short, users can click a few buttons and start getting all of the > Ubuntu kernel security updates applied to their system without rebooting. > No initial kernel changes are needed.
Great.
> > [1] http://www.ksplice.com > [2] http://www.ksplice.com/uptrack > > I first mentioned Ksplice to the LKML in April 2008 [3], and since then > we've submitted several rounds of Ksplice patches [4,5,6]. So far we've > gotten various improvements related to Ksplice merged into mainline. > > [3] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/23/330 > [4] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/13/6 > [5] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/21/484 > [6] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/5/330 > > Ksplice applies traditional source code patches to unmodified Linux > kernels. It can be used to apply all of the Linux security patches over > multiple years [7], and it can also apply reliability patches and other > bug fixes, such as from the Linux stable tree.
Afaik, Solaris and some other Unix like OS have similar rebootless security update mechanism.
Yes, I like linux has such feature too.
> > [7] http://www.ksplice.com/paper > > - Jeff
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