Re: Useless...
I never said that "anyone with a brain" said that. There's also the "Joke Alert" icon.
But you can look at many "Linux fans" here claiming that in lots of posts - feel free to look for them, it's not difficul to find them - obviously, as per your own words, they are brainless people without a clue about how software - especially a kernel - works.
Nobody ever denied Windows needs reboots - and it asks you explicitly so you know. Linux needs reboots as well, just brainless people believe it doesn't because it doesn't ask explicitly (some update manager do aks it, though). Anwyay, if you slipstream a Windows installation, you can install it with a single reboot as well.
But as long as people like you measure their sysadmin skills on "uptime" and not on how well machines are really cared for and properly setup, there's little to do - sure, that a simple number even brainless people can understand - just, it means nothing....
And "now" right now means in a "near future".... when kernel 3.20 will be ready. Don't know if the Windows kernel architecture will allow for something like that - one of the reason Windows requires reboots is to avoid memory corruptiion due to different versions of the same piece of code trying to access something which is no longer equal among them - say a memory structure that changed in size of something alike - it could happen for internal structures. It will be interesting to know how Linux handle such situations and move data from the old to the new setup.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
