On Tuesday 22 October 2013, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2013-10-22 19:44, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
В Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:39:06 +0200 Stefan Seyfried
<stefan.seyfried@googlemail.com> пишет:
The only thing where a reboot is warranted is a kernel update.
Restarting your DE is not much different from reboot for most users and reboot has advantage of guaranteeing that everything is really restarted.
True.
I have right now 65 windows opened in my work desktop, not counting those inside two virtual machines.
For example if you just want to restart your windowmanager you do not need to close all these windows ... just restart the windowmanager. Dependent on your window manager, like $ killall kwin $ kwin
I do not restart the desktop in weeks, if I can avoid it. I hibernate the machine.
Once I restart the desktop, restarting the rest with a reboot is not that much.
If you are the only user and if you want to do a reboot ... then a reboot is ok of course.
Ah, not only the kernel requires a reboot: a glibc update does, to. Or a systemd update (PID 1)
$ telinit q or $ systemctl daemon-reexec cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org