From: "Geo." 

I agree with the statement about windows, but I seem to remember /m saying
something about a 6 hour recompile on his BSD system to update something or
other. Does Linux ever require a recompile that takes longer than a reboot?

Geo.

"Rich Holm"  wrote in
message news:MPG.189e7608a1121f4b989950{at}news.barkto.com...
>
> Windows still requires way too many reboots to install/update software.
> Linux only really needs a reboot when the kernel gets updates... and
> even then there are ways around it.  Thing have gotten better, but MS
> needs to improve in this area.  Hell, changing your desktop font
> still (in XP) requires a reboot.
>
> Cheers,
> Rich

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