System administrators now see Linux kernel live security updates are becoming an essential component of an enterprise’s cybersecurity toolkit, not merely a convenience for system maintainers. Where ...

Linux 4.0 does, however, include a number of new innovative capabilities, including a live kernel patching capability that could help further advance server high availability. The Linux 4.0 kernel ...

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Suse has announced that it is developing kGraft, an open-source kernel patcher that will remove the need for restarting a Linux system updating the kernel. KGraft is expected to have its first ...

As Linux version 4.0 was released on 15 April, one of the most discussed new features to be included in this release is "no reboot" kernel patching. With the major distros committing to support the ...

Ksplice is an interesting open source project out of MIT that automates the process of applying security patches to the Linux kernel without rebooting, and it's getting notice by the Linux Foundation.

Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, has announced that it will provide a live kernel patching services for version 16.04 which was released in April. Users will be ...

There’s a tool called BridgeHelper 3.0 available from TonyMacx86 which will let you patch the OS X 10.7.3 kernel to add support for Ivy Bridge processors. This isn’t a replacement for native ...

For OS X 10.5, known as Leopard, Apple provided Java 5 updates well after Sun Microsystems, the creator and former owner of Java, stopped serving public patches. Sun stopped Java 5 support with ...