Ksplice and CentOS

Ksplice first announced itself in 2008 as a project for "rebootless kernel security updates" based at MIT. The students behind the project soon graduated, and so did the project itself; a company by the same name was formed to offer commercial no-reboot patching to customers who cared deeply about uptime. Ksplice Inc. also offered free update services for a number of distributions. Much of this came to an end on July 21, when Oracle announced that it had acquired Ksplice Inc. and would incorporate its services into its own Linux support offerings. A free form of ksplice might just live on, though, with support from an interesting direction.

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