Updating the Linux Kernel Without Restart Could Arrive Soon for Users

Posted by thesilviu on Dec 23, 2014 2:46 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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A new development cycle has been started for the Linux kernel, 3.19, but it looks like the 3.20 branch is about to receive a very interesting patch that should really shake things up if it's going to get accepted, that is.

The openSUSE devs have been working for some time with a couple of tools called kPatch and kGraft. This essentially allows users to upgrade the Linux kernel on the fly without the need to restart the system. It might not seem like much for regular users with normal PCs, but please keep in mind that they represent only a small fraction of the total of Linux distros.

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