Is a restart REALLY required after an upgrade?

[Max Andersen]

Craig Hagerman wrote:
> There has been so many that I couldn't begin to list them. Afterall
> Dapper is in the final stages of becoming official so things are
> changing often. However, the kernel hasn't changed (as far as I know).
> And I would be surprised if it were true that the changes were 'so
> heavy' that everything needs to be reset with a shutdown. apt-get
> intelligently stops and restarts running daemons, askes about updating
> config files and generally seems to be able to upgrade seemlessly.
>
> As I mentioned I have also been running a debian amd64 unstable
> machine for 3 years now and have been though hundreds of
> dist-upgrades. It is on 24/7 and I rarely reboot, and NEVER because of
> any new upgrade (other than kernel).

I understand. I boot every day(on my laptop), so I don't feel this as 
much as you, but I can also see that the kernel's launched are very 
frequent. My latest 2.6.15-20 came yesterday, and a few weeks back, it 
was like 'kernel of the week' for me, upgrading kernels all the time (it 
felt that way).

But it's part of the game, and have you considered lack of 
kernelreleases on your debian-amd64? I believe that I've got 3-5 kernels 
in the last 2 months on my dapper-686. Every time, vmware, vpn-software 
etc. kicks out, but hey, that's fun ;-)

And why run dapper, if it's a steady kernel you wan't?

Or is it just curiosity on what the exact differences between debian and 
ubuntu are, 'dist-upgrade' wise? Have you counted the exact number of 
kernel-releases + kernel-editing patches in the same timespan of those 2 
distributions?

That's the only way you will ever get a precise answer.
 
Sincerely
Max
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