Feature changed by: Bernhard Wiedemann (bmwiedemann) Feature #306907, revision 11 Title: Add support for Ksplice openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) reject date: 2009-08-12 10:52:21 reject reason: Let's evaluate for 11.3. Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stephan Kleine (bitshuffler) Description: KSplice allows it currently to apply most but not all kernel updates without the need to reboot which is especially great for servers. It's backed by a newly founded corporation that continually tries to improve it so hopefully sometime in the future a reboot wont be necessary for any kernel update. Fedora as well as Ubuntu already support it so openSUSE shouldn't stay behind. URL: http://www.ksplice.com/ Discussion: #1: Harald Milz (suse2miha) (2009-08-04 21:16:55) Ksplice will be THE reason for many webserver admins to choose Ubuntu and not openSUSE. Don't lose any ground on the server market, make use of Ksplice too. + #2: (bmwiedemann) (2009-10-09 11:37:37) + A presentation at LinuxTag 2009 from the ksplice guys as well as + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksplice says, that all security patches + can be made rebootless. Only 12% of 64 studied patches needed manual + extra code (e.g. for updating structure data). + The proper way of distribution would of course also update /lib/modules + and /boot/vmlinuz/initrd but possibly patch the running kernel via a + rpm post-inst script. + I have noted that in the past, openSUSE kernel-updates happened later + than those for Debian and Ubuntu, but often contained several fixes at + a time. I guess, part of this is due to the reboot needed after a + kernel-update, so with Ksplice critical security fixes could reach + users faster. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306907