Everyone hates rebooting for updates. When system administrators reboot their servers, they have to manage an inconvenient outage window—quite possibly during the middle of the night—and they have to ...

Ksplice is an interesting open source project out of MIT that automates the process of applying security patches to the Linux kernel without rebooting, and it's getting notice by the Linux Foundation.

Every enterprise wants to harden its servers and increase uptime, but security updates often require reboots. Companies that want to please their customers need a better way to apply software updates.

I have written in the past about the reliability and stability of Linux, and pointed out that it does not have to be rebooted unless there is a kernel upgrade being done. All other pieces of software ...

May 26, 2009 Rebooting your PC after updating software is one of the more tedious aspects of working on computers. New award-winning software, called Ksplice, however, addresses this by enabling ...

If you use Linux, you don’t reboot very often. In my case, the only time I reboot is when I upgrade a system. But just suppose you didn’t have to do even that. Suppose you could make major updates and ...

Ksplice, the technology that allows Linux kernel updates without a reboot, is now free for users of the Fedora distribution. Using Ksplice is like “replacing your car’s engine while speeding down the ...

The kernel developers are generally quite good about responding to security problems. Once a vulnerability in the kernel has been found, a patch comes out in short order; system administrators can ...

Last summer we wrote about Ksplice, a hot new technology that allows Linux kernel updates to be applied in real time, without requiring a reboot. Whether you want to use this for your personal laptop, ...

Start-up beats out five others to win grand prize in institute's entrepreneurship contest with its tech for installing software updates while other programs are running. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Ksplice fulfills the dream of eternal uptime by making it possible to seamlessly apply Linux kernel updates without rebooting. The company behind the technology has ...