On 2016-03-02, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Software updates? The nice thing about *nix systems is that *most*
> updates don't require a reboot. I'm still going to reboot any time
> there's a kernel update though, and those are fairly frequent. I could
> read the patch notes to determine whether this new kernel version is
> actually important, but it takes less of my time just to go ahead and
> reboot.
I try to remember to reboot every couple weeks or so even without a
kernel update. There sometimes updates to things like the "rc" stuff
or udev or whatnot which occasionally cause boot-time problems. If
you let too much time go by between reboots, and something that
happend several months ago is going to cause a problem at boot time,
that reboot is guaranteed to happen when it's the most inconvenient.
And it's a lot easier to figure out the problem when it's due to a
recent update.
> With my company-owned Macbook Air, the security policy will
> eventually schedule a *forced* reboot when there are "critical"
> updates to be installed. Thankfully the scheduler is pretty good
> about making sure it's not catching the user at an inopportune
> moment.
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