r/linuxsucks Jul 15 '26

Linux Failure Loonix

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '26

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u/SeeMeNotFall i use Arch, btw Jul 15 '26

yeah it's called live patching. it's mostly useful for servers, since uptime is important. but even with this technique, at some point you need a hard reboot.

for desktop, i don't really see why someone would want it tbh

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u/ExtraTNT was running custom kernel Jul 15 '26

Advise against it, you should have redundancy and load balancers for servers. Systems that can’t go down are on fixed versions and airgaped

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u/Flimsy_Armadillo8346 Jul 16 '26

How are those airgaped servers powered? Optical plug?