On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 02:44 -0400, Raman Gupta wrote:
Depending on the process, a service or application restart may be enough, or if X/Gnome/KDE files have been updated, a restart of the X server may be required. I think the only times I have ever required a total reboot are kernel updates.
I reboot on updates of libc, which is used by virtually every process. Also, as long as you're not running a server, it's often easier and faster to reboot if you aren't sure.
poc