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		dspillett on Nov 2, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode What about when a kernel update is due? Is something fancy like live patches (via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksplice or the like) happening or are you simply skipping security updates?

moconnor on Nov 2, 2011 [–]

Well, I've only had it for a month. No, I'm not going to try to do anything fancy, the machine will go down for kernel updates just like any other.

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