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scns on Feb 18, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions

Canonical and Oracle offer updating a running Kernel as a paid service IIRC. One was called Ksplice, i think the one Oracle acquired.

teo_zero on Feb 18, 2023 [–]

Please be aware that ksplice can only apply small patches to a running kernel. It can't replace the entirety of it with a new version.

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