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Comment by ectospheno

6 days ago

If you aren’t rebooting a Linux box 15 to 30 times per year then you aren’t applying kernel security updates. I view uptime fanatics as walking security problems and assign an appropriately low trust value for their actions on computers in general.

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nosioptar  6 days ago

Not necessarily, live patching is possible.

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_...

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