{"id":4998,"date":"2017-09-09T10:23:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T10:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=4998"},"modified":"2017-09-09T10:23:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T10:23:59","slug":"fedora-core-whats-with-the-restarts-to-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=4998","title":{"rendered":"Fedora Core: What&#8217;s With The Restarts To Upgrade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently switched from Ubuntu to Fedora Core for a variety of reasons :-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For a later version of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fwupd.org\/\"><em>fwupd<\/em><\/a> as I had some vulnerable wireless mice to update.<\/li>\n<li>To have a look at what <a href=\"https:\/\/wayland.freedesktop.org\/\">Wayland<\/a> was like (mostly invisible although oddball Window Managers still only talk to X).<\/li>\n<li>To have a look at what it&#8217;s like after all these years; RedHat was one of the early distributions I ran.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All is reasonable except for one thing. The software updates.<\/p>\n<p>What is this obsession with restarting to perform software updates? Is the relevant developer a refugee from Windows?<\/p>\n<p>Now don&#8217;t get me wrong; a restart is the most effective simple way to ensure that outdated versions are not in use, but restarting every time you perform an update seems excessive.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you need to update the kernel for security reasons, a restart is reasonable if you don&#8217;t have &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/no-reboot-patching-comes-to-linux-4-0\/\">live upgrades<\/a>&#8221; but Fedora Core comes with a kernel that has that feature.<\/li>\n<li>If you have a security update to a long-running process (such as Wayland or X), then you need to restart that process. In some cases you can restart a long-running process without notice; in others you will have to be disruptive, or ask someone to quit the long-running process.<\/li>\n<li>If it isn&#8217;t a security update, you can simply wait until the user restarts the process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, the update process need not be as disruptive as Fedora Core makes it. It is of course not the end of the world to force a reboot, but it is hardly a very graceful process and some (including me) will find it annoying enough to avoid Fedora Core.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4959\" style=\"width: 691px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4959\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4959\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010-12-05-Post-Interference.jpg?resize=681%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010-12-05-Post-Interference.jpg?w=681&amp;ssl=1 681w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010-12-05-Post-Interference.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Post Interference<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently switched from Ubuntu to Fedora Core for a variety of reasons :- For a later version of\u00a0fwupd as I had some vulnerable wireless mice to update. To have a look at what Wayland was like (mostly invisible although oddball Window Managers still only talk to X). To have a look at what it&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=4998' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,209],"tags":[1639,1640],"class_list":["post-4998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-linux-it","tag-fedora-core","tag-updates","category-4-id","category-209-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-1iC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4999,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions\/4999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}