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How they're different (part of the answer)

How they're different (part of the answer)

Posted Apr 20, 2008 7:37 UTC (Sun) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: How they're different (part of the answer) by tialaramex
Parent article: Reliability: Unix and Linux beat Windows (heise online)

One weak point in Ubuntu and probably other distros is that they don't seem to automatically
either restart services (with a warning) or tell the desktop user that 'XYZ app is open - be
sure to restart it soon to pick up the latest update'.  Ideally such warnings would provide a
URL to the distro security advisory so the user can decide whether to restart urgently or at
end of day/week etc.

I'm curious to know if any Unix/Linux systems do this.


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