With the new Linux 4.0 kernel, you'll need to reboot Linux less often than ever.

On the rare occasion that my Linux desktop freezes, I have a few tricks up my sleeve that keep me from having to do a hard reboot on my machine.

Recently I heard a lecture on best admin practices and they said to set servers to auto update and auto reboot. The few servers I have have webserver, database and an app and reboot for kernel ...

Generally, if you have good hardware, then you should only have to reboot to replace/add some hardware or recompile the kernel. At least, that is all I ever had to reboot for.

You can, however, configure Linux to automatically reboot on a kernel panic by making a small modification to /etc/sysctl.conf, a configuration file that tweaks many kernel operating parameters.

With Linux 4.0, we're one step closer to the version of Linux used by the T-800 Terminator. But it's full of handy improvements!

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