-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adam Williamson wrote: > 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 is what I use for my server. Fedora 10 and uptime of 50 days. >> 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... > I do think that bodhi should also have a flag for needs-session- restart similar to the reboot flag. I have a ticket for it in bodhi trac, though I haven't heard any noise from it since I filed it. - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpyRvgACgkQiPi+MRHG3qS34ACgvXrHV1QNTcgaBI/6kzujdwos pA0An0ZP/uxAE1KXJyE+/Q8zmVDllG8c =k1LF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
