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Re: 30 Linux "security advisories" in just one week?
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John Thompson |
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Re: 30 Linux "security advisories" in just one week? |
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Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:42:27 -0000 |
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On 2004-06-12, Kadaitcha Man <nospam@kadaitcha.cx> wrote:
> John Thompson wrote:
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>> Not to mention having to reboot between every frickin' driver
>> installation.
> That's a furphy. Not all drivers require reboots and certainly not all
> drivers that do need a reboot will force you to reboot. You can install a
> sequence of drivers before a reboot is required. It all comes down to
> dependencies.
Why should you have to reboot for anything besides a kernel update? In
Windows, too much cruft hooks into the kernel, making this reboot nonsense
necessary and compromising the stability of the whole system.
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-John (john@os2.dhs.org)