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Update safer with GNOME 3.6!

Posted by wogue on · 8 comments
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Installing updates while the session is running can cause many unpleasant situations for the users and their system. The risks are many, including the updating of libraries while they are running, updating while some file resources have not been locked, and sometimes in core OS updates we may even see a complete system corruption.

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Comments (8)

ComputerBob ·
I can't think of its name, but I used to use an operating system that required me to reboot after installing updates, but not before installing them.

Then I switched to Linux, which didn't require me to reboot at all.

I've heard rumors that my previous OS doesn't require rebooting after updates any more.

But now Linux requires users to reboot both before and after updates?
caitlyn ·
As a general rule Linux doesn't require rebooting before or after updates. Thanks to ksplice that can be true even after a kernel upgrade. GNOME 3.6 is apparently another matter. Please don't equate GNOME 3.x with Linux.
ComputerBob ·
Good to know - thanks!
Bob_Robertson ·
ComBob,

Since I'm stuck on Winders at work, I can say that a vast majority of updates do not require rebooting, but not all.

Every few weeks I get into a "this update will complete next time you restart Windows". And recently, there was even a, "You need to close all your applications and reboot Windows" with a nag that could only be delayed by a couple hours, not turned off.

Or maybe it wasn't all that recent, but it certainly was within the last 6 months.

Anyway, I did notice that the notifications in Debian of "You are updating the kernel you are presently running. Please reboot your machine as soon as possible, or things may not work" have ceased to come up. It could very well be that the kernel "update in place" is working, or someone just got lazy.
ComputerBob ·
Winders! Yes, that was the name of my previous OS! Thanks for reminding me. ;)
number6x ·
There are still people using gnome 3! Wow.
tracyanne ·
Ah the Wonders of Winders, ComputerBob
caitlyn ·
Quoting:There are still people using gnome 3! Wow.
Based on his latest rant I doubt Linus Torvalds is still one of them. He tried to make it work. He really did.

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