The project has a goal Ksplice more than ambitious: to integrate a Linux operating system layer that allows to apply security updates to the kernel without rebooting.

For those who are familiar with UNIX-like systems, it must be said that a server restart (or even a PC) for each installation of the software is not a normal thing, believe me ... On some of my clients server reboot was performed over a years ago and that everything runs as smooth as it should be. There are rare situations in which, however, restart the server is required and one of these is the installation of patches that relate to the kernel. Well, on the website of MIT 's long been a page that promises to eliminate the need for reboot in the event of substantial changes to the Linux kernel!

Systems engineers are testing Ksplice American University since 2005. The results are impressive: the software is able to automatically apply the 84% of the 50 major patches released during this time. Ksplice was tested on different distributions in both 32 and 64 bits from 2.6.8 until the very last kernel 2.6.25, those who wish can find more information at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at this address:

http://web.mit.edu/ksplice/

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