On Tuesday 03 February 2009 10:57:24 Bob Williams wrote:
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 15:19:27 Istvan Gabor wrote:
I rebooted the computer and now it looks and works fine. Is it just me, or am I really seeing "I re-booted the computer, and it works now" more and more on this list?
Maybe. It seems to be a solution that works for some. I don't think twice about rebooting my laptop. For my desktop and VPS, I generally search for a non-reboot solution.
It used to be that a reboot was only necessary with a kernel upgrade.
That's still true. A reboot is not *necessary* for most issues that it can address.[1] There's also quite a few issues that a reboot won't fix.
Is this an example of convergent evolution of operating systems? ;)
Not really. Rebooting has always worked just as well on Linux as it has on MS Windows. (Which means it really only solves transient errors anyway.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/