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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Oct 2008 22:08 UTC, submitted by diegocg

Kexec is a feature that allows to boot kernels from a working kernel. It was originally intended for use by kernel and system developers who had to reboot several times a day. Soon, system administrators for high-availability servers found use for it as well. As systems get more and more advanced, and boot times get longer, end users can now benefit from it.

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RE: Flawed but with some serious possibilities!

by Morph on Fri 17th Oct 2008 00:01 UTC in reply to "Flawed but with some serious possibilities!"

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issues with some drivers and apparently most of these will be with proprietary drivers like the one mentioned in the article

One cited example of a driver problem from the example is sufficient evidence that "most" problems will be with proprietary drivers? Come on.

...desperately need Open Source and Free Software to provide the indispensable competition Microsoft desperately needs but has made use of their illegal monopoly to sheild themselves from.

I'm glad that I didn't have to wait longer than the first comment for someone to fire up the Microsoft bashing. I hate having to read through 8 or 10 insightful, clever comments to get to the Microsoft h4te.

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