new kernels & rebooting

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 11:42:24 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 07:29 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 07/21/2014 07:19 AM, Alchemist wrote:
> >
> >
> > You can do fast-reboot by using kexec
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel/kexec
> >  
> thanks, good info! I don't have a problem with the speed of reboots, I
> just do init 6 from command line.. It just seems that all I have been
> doing lately is rebooting, and setting up all the windows I keep open..
> 3 kernels in 10 days..

It's a symptom of active development. Unlike some other distros, Fedora
tracks the upstream kernel versions quite closely, but there's nothing
obliging you to always use the latest kernel if it doesn't fix anything
relevant to you.

poc



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