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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

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Reminder: December 23rd is going to be our Christmas edition of the Friday Night Guitar Thread. Get to working on your Christmas songs now so they are done in time!

**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask theBuddha, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate). **Reminder:** December 23rd is going to be our Christmas edition of the Friday Night Guitar Thread. Get to working on your Christmas songs *now* so they are done in time!

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They do need kernel updates, but there are ways around that. Windows servers need to be rebooted about as often as you would HAVE TO reboot a Windows desktop computer.

But, kernel upgrades require a reboot. You can live patch them and get away without rebooting for a long time.

Sadly, many morons don't do that.

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kind of like some apps require a reboot to install

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Yeah... Most everything can be restarted for the changes to take place, but if you restart the kernel that means rebooting. You can't do one without the other. So, if it's a new kernel that's installed it's not actually working without being restarted.

Life patching helps but can't do everything. At the end of the day, you can plan on rebooting a Linux server every three to four months - or possibly a year (up to 18 months) with the various live-patching solutions. Live patching basically modifies the runtime code on the fly. This adds overhead and complexity, so you'll still wanna reboot eventually.

Some folks never reboot. Not once. Last I knew, there was an AIX system that hadn't been rebooted fo like 20-something years.

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a lot of servers are accessed 24/7 so you dont really want them down