On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 13:27 +0100, Colin Law wrote: > When this happens is it necessary to reboot fairly urgently or is it > ok to delay this till a convenient time. In other words is there a > significant difference between delaying the update because it will ask > for a reboot, and delaying the update itself.
In my experience, you don't need to reboot immediately. But if it was a kernel update (to the same number kernel, not a new one), suspending or inserting new hardware may be unreliable. If it was an important library like libc6, starting new applications may be unstable, but the currently-loaded ones are fine. My rule is: update immediately, and reboot at the end of the day, before trying to put the laptop to sleep. Regards, Tyler -- "The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all." -- Anne Smedley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
