On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 19:27 -0400, Doug Epling wrote: > Well, excuse me for my old fashioned notion that a server must run for > days, weeks, months without incident. More and more I see a system > loaded down with GUI apps that are crashing. I said crashing. If you're running GUI apps on your server, you're probably doing it wrong. It's perfectly possible to do a completely non-X install of Fedora, and that's how I'd recommend doing things for a server system. > This never used to be a word associated with Linux, but it is now. > And what is the deal with needing to reboot after updates? That > sounds like something needs to be properly entered into the registry > -- oh wait, that is Windows. You have to reboot on kernel updates (...duh) and udev updates. Possibly a couple of other things, but those are the big ones. I believe it would have been very difficult to architect things such that udev could be restarted without needing a reboot to ensure correct operation. Most apps just aren't coded to deal with the entire device node tree suddenly disappearing and re-appearing underneath them... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
