Some of us are old enough to remember when the entire point of cable TV was to avoid commercials. Over-the-air antenna TV was supported by ads. But then cable came along, and went “hey, what if we offered a paid TV service, without the ads?”
Then they realized they could just fucking double-dip and show ads anyways. And now they’re charging extra to skip those ads.
And we’ve seen streaming services start to take the same route. Some have started showing ads to paid users, then charging extra to avoid the ads.
Doesn’t kpatch (the Linux equivalent) typically need some kind of subscription too? IIRC RedHat does this with RHEL as it’s not available in the derivative distros
It seems a bit of a silly line to draw to me, but it seems to be some kind of industry convention
I’d not heard of this one so I had a look, and these are similar but different things it seems:
kexec lets you switch to another kernel without a full reboot, but you still need to go through the init process of the new kernel apparently. It’s quick compared to a reboot but still involves downtime.
kpatch is actual hotpatching (like this windows thing) where the kernel code is changed in-memory without any down time. The kernel never stops running, so those enterprise customers get the benefit of always running the most secure kernel without having to schedule downtime.
Though apparently kpatch can’t patch everything in the kernel so I can imagine a place for both tools in a server admin’s toolbox when you’re forced to do a non hotpatch.
LOL they’re charging their data center customers $1.50/core/month to avoid reboots caused by their own patch system.
I would rather donate that $1.50/core/month to any valuable FOSS software
Sky TV in the UK charge you to skip commercials, when they put the commercials in the programmes.
Some of us are old enough to remember when the entire point of cable TV was to avoid commercials. Over-the-air antenna TV was supported by ads. But then cable came along, and went “hey, what if we offered a paid TV service, without the ads?”
Then they realized they could just fucking double-dip and show ads anyways. And now they’re charging extra to skip those ads.
And we’ve seen streaming services start to take the same route. Some have started showing ads to paid users, then charging extra to avoid the ads.
Literally every cable and streaming company does that. It’s not the same thing.
Sky TV takes ‘The Last of Us’ from HBO, which has no commercials, puts commercials in it and then charges you if you want to skip those commercials.
Yup. Every cable channel has done that for forty+ years.
Thats not unique or new.
But cable TV like all services when it first came about did not have ads. You paid for cable at first because it had no ads compared to antenna.
Doesn’t kpatch (the Linux equivalent) typically need some kind of subscription too? IIRC RedHat does this with RHEL as it’s not available in the derivative distros
It seems a bit of a silly line to draw to me, but it seems to be some kind of industry convention
No, use kexec
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kexec
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/kexec.8.html
I’d not heard of this one so I had a look, and these are similar but different things it seems:
kexec lets you switch to another kernel without a full reboot, but you still need to go through the init process of the new kernel apparently. It’s quick compared to a reboot but still involves downtime.
kpatch is actual hotpatching (like this windows thing) where the kernel code is changed in-memory without any down time. The kernel never stops running, so those enterprise customers get the benefit of always running the most secure kernel without having to schedule downtime.
Though apparently kpatch can’t patch everything in the kernel so I can imagine a place for both tools in a server admin’s toolbox when you’re forced to do a non hotpatch.
FTA: