Canonical Now Offering Live Kernel Patching Services, Free for Up to Three PCs

Today, October 18, 2016, Canonical informs us, through Dustin Kirkland, about a new interesting feature for Ubuntu Linux, which users can enable on their current installations. First off, we'd like to remind you that the Linux 4.0 kernel released a year and a half ago brought with it a new functionality that would allow users to patch/update their kernel packages without restarting. The feature is called kernel live patching and, until today, no GNU/Linux distribution offered it, for free, to their users. It was only available in commercial offerings like SUSE Enterprise Linux or Red Hat Enterprise Linux. "Kernel live patching enables runtime correction of critical security issues in your kernel without rebooting. It’s the best way to ensure that machines are safe at the kernel level, while guaranteeing uptime, especially for container hosts where a single machine may be running thousands of different workloads," says Dustin Kirkland, Ubuntu Product and Strategy at...