Fedora Has No Plans on Enabling Live Patching for Linux Kernel 4.0 | Linux Today

Fedora Has No Plans on Enabling Live Patching for Linux Kernel 4.0

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Marius Nestor
Apr 19, 2015

When some Google+ users asked the Fedora developers if they plan on offering kernel upgrades without a reboot, Josh Boyer, the Fedora kernel team leader, replied that there are no plans to enable live patching in Fedora 22’s Linux kernel 4.0 packages.

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Marius Nestor

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