Ksplice Boots the Reboot (Linux Journal)

Posted Jun 28, 2009 14:35 UTC (Sun) by freggy (guest, #37477)
In reply to: Ksplice Boots the Reboot (Linux Journal) by tzafrir
Parent article: Ksplice Boots the Reboot (Linux Journal)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksplice :

Ksplice takes as input only a unified diff and the original kernel source code, and it updates the running kernel correctly, with no further human assistance required

So yes, it works on any kernel, as long as you have the source available. This is not new, and this is not what is being announced here. What is new here is the specific support for Ubuntu. Everything is now integrated in a GUI and users probably don't need to have the sources installed, because everything is pre-compiled for (the specifically supported) Ubuntu kernels.