Star Linux: Reboot Like a Racecar with kexec
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Oct 2008 22:08 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Linux 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
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2007-08-20

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

Sounds like the problem is (partly) with FOSS culture, then!?

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

Yeah, that's a good (bad!) example. Fortunately Microsoft's standards have improved a lot since the bad-old-days of Windows 9x and IE4-6. IE8 is quite developer-friendly and has eg tabs-in-separate-processes, and Vista has some great UI and under-the-hood improvements (don't believe every criticism you read!). Competition surely did play a role here. I'd guess that Apple, Google and Mozilla are mostly to thank for that!

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