Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint

On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:36:19 -0500, -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
wrote in <vjnek3$l418$2@dont-email.me>:

On 12/15/24 11:21 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

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This is why you don’t even need to do a reboot if it is sufficient to
simply stop and start the affected services.

 
The aptiude front-end for apt might detect an issue with versions. You can then
examine the issue and see a list of one or more solutions; you can then pick
the solution you want.  And in a few days, that issue will likely be gone
anyway.

 
What some of this has prompted me to think about is how there's
relatively recent security folks who are suggesting to reboot one's
smartphone nightly, as a security measure against spyware/etc.
 
 From this perspective, it would seem that a hard reboot might not be a
bad thing for desktop PCs too.  Sure, I can see the desire for high
uptime on Cloud/Web/server stuff, but for a desktop?  Nah, just make it
part of the overnight maintenance cycle as a procedure to minimize risks
from malware.
 
 
-hh

Reminds me of back in the early 90's at the college, when our student-access
Unix (Linux) host would reboot nightly at 3am.

The idea was to clear out any cruftiness in the kernel, as well as
restart long-running processes that might have leaked memory, or
gotten themselves into undesirable states, or what-have-you.

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