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Linux has this
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What’s Linux? This is the first in hearing of this here on Lemmy.
Can you provide me with an .exe of it?
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How many people are actually using kexec to update Linux without rebooting?
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Windows is very lazy about reboots. Minesweeper changed? Better reboot.
Chrome also got infected with this laziness. It used to be that you had to restart chrome once a month, now it’s almost every day. Among many other reasons, that’s why I’m happy to be using Firefox again.
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Cool, so its possible then! I hope Microsoft makes it functional for Windows, too.
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It comes in 3 forms.
- Update small system components (packages) and load the old into ram until rebooting; I don’t think this is possible on windows.
- A/B Image Based Updating; Android and a few Linux distros have this; probably one of the most stable methods.
- Live boot updates/Kernel-space Hot Patching; found mostly in Linux servers, and distros with a patched kernel; used mostly for security updates which is what windows is doing here, but Linux can do feature updates this way too.
