Tried it on a freshly updated jaunty install on acer aspire one
netbook. On testing I rebooted to see what sort of hit load times
would take and realised it screwed up video card settings. Chose to
reinstall rather than troubleshoot. Would not yet recommend mainstream
adoption, hackers will have fun though.

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On 3 Jul 2009, at 13:41, Richard Bailey <rmjb@...> wrote:

> This looks very promising, too bad it's only for Ubuntu at the moment
> though. As the article said, this would have the biggest impact on
> servers,
> and for me that's RHEL.
>
> A couple points it raises though, what about kernel version
> numbering? When
> you execute uname -r it returns the kernel version, and a lot of
> installation scripts in enterprise packages use this to determine what
> kernel headers to compile against, I wonder if Ksplice will take
> that into
> consideration.
>
> It is also good that they take the patches out of the distribution's
> repository because, again for enterprise, those distros are
> supported for 7
> years, with that in mind they rarely change the base kernel version
> but will
> backport a lot of features from later kernels into the "older" one.
> For
> example one of the servers we run returns a kernel version of
> 2.6.9-89.ELsmp. This is the base kernel 2.6.9, a pretty "old"
> kernel, but
> internally RedHat has patched and backported fixes and features into
> this
> kernel enough times to warrant the -89 sub-version number. The ELsmp
> simply
> means Enterprise Linux and
> SMP<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing>Kernel.
> This approach gives RedHat's partners stability because they know
> that this version, RHEL4, has a stable kernel
> ABI<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_binary_interface>based on
> kernel 2.6.9 that wont change from sub-version to sub-version and
> they can write their applications and drivers against it.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Trevor Christian <doubleOTeC@...
> >wrote:
>
>> 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, technolog
>> y that
>> applies patches directly into the running kernel. And thanks to
>> their free
>> Uptrack service it’s free for users of Ubuntu!
>> http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7403/1.html
>>
>> Regards,
>> Trevor "TeC" Christian
>> Cell #: (868) 687 0436 / (767) 225 4472
>> Home Page (http://www.trevorchristian.com/)
>>
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