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[–] conneru64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kernel live patching, which basically rewires kernel functions at runtime, lets you update the kernel without rebooting. I don't remember how old that is though.

[–] example@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] conneru64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

That's still downtime, it just doesn't reboot firmware