Everyone hates rebooting for updates. When system administrators reboot their servers, they have to manage an inconvenient outage window—quite possibly during the middle of the night—and they have to ...

Linux: If you're running a server, always-on media box, or other system that's powered by Ubuntu, you probably don't love having to reboot just to install security updates. Ksplice, a semi-free ...

Every enterprise wants to harden its servers and increase uptime, but security updates often require reboots. Companies that want to please their customers need a better way to apply software updates.

Ksplice is an interesting open source project out of MIT that automates the process of applying security patches to the Linux kernel without rebooting, and it's getting notice by the Linux Foundation.

The kernel developers are generally quite good about responding to security problems. Once a vulnerability in the kernel has been found, a patch comes out in short order; system administrators can ...

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 ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Ksplice currently supports Linux kernel updates but claims its rebootless updating technology, which works at the object code level, can be applied to any operating system or user space application.

Ksplice, the technology that allows Linux kernel updates without a reboot, is now free for users of the Fedora distribution. Using Ksplice is like “replacing your car’s engine while speeding down the ...

If you use Linux, you don’t reboot very often. In my case, the only time I reboot is when I upgrade a system. But just suppose you didn’t have to do even that. Suppose you could make major updates and ...

Start-up beats out five others to win grand prize in institute's entrepreneurship contest with its tech for installing software updates while other programs are running. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Last summer we wrote about Ksplice, a hot new technology that allows Linux kernel updates to be applied in real time, without requiring a reboot. Whether you want to use this for your personal laptop, ...