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Re:Kpatch: Dynamic Linux kernel patching by spb on Saturday August 23, 2014 @05:37PM (#8216938)
How is this different from ksplice?
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Re:Kpatch: Dynamic Linux kernel patching by kapilvt on Saturday August 23, 2014 @05:52PM (#8216971)
in a word. support.

as opposed to oracle overlords, who will eventually stop supporting grandfather'd customers and only support unbreakable linux.

there's kgraft and kpatch (suse and redhat respectively), different capabilities.

background links (kgraft/kspice) http://lwn.net/Articles/584016/ http://lwn.net/Articles/589183/

edit.. oracle also owns patents on ksplice.

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Re:Kpatch: Dynamic Linux kernel patching by Zancarius on Saturday August 23, 2014 @05:50PM (#8216968)
As pointed out by chomp [1] (above).

[1] https://github.com/dynup/kpatch?hn#license

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