Patching a Linux kernel without any downtime is likely to become a common practice over the next few years; two patches released earlier this year are likely to make what is a task requiring downtime ...

Nobody loves a reboot, especially not if it involves a late-breaking patch for a kernel-level issue that has to be applied stat. To that end, three projects are in the works to provide a mechanism for ...

SUSE announced kGraft at the beginning of February while Red Hat made its pitch about kpatch towards the end of the same month. The patches have been submitted upstream for incorporation in the kernel ...