• Shareni@programming.dev
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    3 个月前

    Linux almost never needs to reboot after an update

    Doesn’t it often need a reboot to apply some updates?

    I rember reading something along those lines then I was researching why Fedora installs some updates after a reboot. Most

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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      3 个月前

      Fedora is the immutable I was referring to that does need to reboot. Linux Mint and OpenSuse only need to reboot after an upgrade. I’ve never had to reboot them after updates. Mileage may vary, of course, as different people have different software, tools, and libraries installed.

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        I was talking about regular fedora. It’s not that you have to reboot, but you don’t get to use those updates until you do. The most obvious example is updating the kernel and its modules.

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          You’re correct. A kernel update would fall under the umbrella of a system upgrade, where the system needs to shut down to allow underlying components to be reloaded.

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        to be fair, fedora downloads and apply the update before reboot, windows download, apply and then reboot, that’s why it take so much time

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          Right, but Fedora failures allows me still to boot. Windows failures forces an uninstallation of the update, killing even more time. There are good and bad things to each approach.