From: Adam 

Tim Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:25:28 -0400, "Geo"
 wrote:
>
>> "Tim Boyer"  wrote in message
>> news:k67bb2lhpmkr6ttsfbd7tnlk86uupurbj5{at}4ax.com...
>>
>>> That one, I can answer.  Never.  I have never had a Linux
update require,
>>> request, or hint about a reboot.
>> I don't doubt what you say but when I update the barracuda (linux based) it
>> always requires a reboot.
>>
>> I'm guessing it depends on what's getting updated.
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>
> How... odd.  I can't conceive of _anything_ that would make it do that.  I
> mean, to restart all the networking on a Linux system you type /etc/init.d
> network restart.
>
> Maybe a kernel rebuild every time?  But why they'd do that instead of using
> loadable modules is beyond me.
>

It's probably to make things easy for people who like to think of the box
as a device. Why have to tell people how to do init.d restart etc when you
can just put up a screen/web page saying "please reboot now"?


Adam

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