Recently I heard a lecture on best admin practices and they said to set servers to auto update and auto reboot. The few servers I have have webserver, database and an app and reboot for kernel upgrade ...

On a well-maintained Linux system, months can go by without needing to reboot. Sooner or later, however, a security patch to the Linux kernel will require you to reboot your machine. That's not a real ...

Researchers at MIT have turned an innovative open source security technology known as Ksplice into a commercial product. Ksplice Uptrack, whose general availability was announced today, eliminates the ...