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KernelCare Is Another Alternative To Canonical's Ubuntu Live Kernel Patching
Written by Michael Larabel in Proprietary Software on 21 October 2016
KernelCare isn't limited to just Ubuntu 16.04 but also works with Ubuntu 14.04 and other distributions such as CentOS/RHEL, Debian, and other enterprise Linux distributions.
Another big difference to Canonical's Livepatch is that KernelCare does support rollback functionality while Canonical doesn't appear to support it at this time. KernelCare can also handle custom patches, 32-bit support, and they share they plan to soon begin offering livepatching support for glibc, OpenSSL, and QEMU.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KernelCare-Ubuntu-Alternative
ešte by mohli pridať Livepatching X.org a bolo by to super
Malá poznámka, RHEL 4 a vyšší obsahuje SystemTap, se kterým se dá dělat live patching taky, jen to nemá takový pěkný kabátek "ala balíček s updatem". A ještě mírně off-topic, doba podpory RHELu (rozšířený update) je skoro 20 let. Pravda, CentOS to má maličko kratší s průměrem kolem deseti let. Přehledné počteníčko to ale také není: