Re: new to list, first post
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
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