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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morph whined...
I'm not trying to be funny; I'm going by experience and what I know of FLOSS culture.
If there are any proprietary drivers running when people report bugs and the app functions okay with the FLOSS driver then most of the time the reaction seems to be 'too bad' or some variation of 'its not my fault, talk to your manufacturer' and that will put off most users.
Even users who understand the politics of the situation.
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. "
I live to serve.
But seriously we only have to look as far as IE6 to see what happens with Microsoft when there isn't someone around to push and prod them into actually innovating. Once Netscape was no longer a threat Microsoft broke up the IE team and sent them off to do other things.
I don't think *cough*Iloveyou*cough* I need to remind you *cough*melissa*cough* what the end result of that *cough*codered*cough* was, do I?
Besides, why do you have to focus on the negative? I was saying this was a good thing if you remember?
Or are we to infer from your reception you consider Microsoft a one-trick-pony who won't be able to keep up with the rest of world if it has to compete...?
--bornagainpenguin