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On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 01:31:09PM +0000, David Bell wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 November 2006 12:47, Simon Waters wrote:
>
> > My suspicion is that many GNU/Linux boxes aren't rebooted often enough, ....
>
> Even in my limited desktop experience I believe this to be a valid
> observation Simon. Rebooting after performing an an update etc. has
> always been the norm for GNU/Linux as far as I'm concerned.
Not necessarily; certainly major updates, but most updates just require
running programs (that are upgraded) to be restarted. Not that rebooting
can hurt, and sometimes it can be a good thing (if a lot of services are
updated it can be easier to just reboot), but I wouldn't reboot just
because Firefox (or whatever it's called nowadays) was upgraded, or any
other X11 application for that matter.
bma
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