I just got a notice from Software Update that it needs to reboot my computer to complete the installation of an update of Safari. Since when is a web browser part of the operating system, Apple?
It’s bad enough you have to reboot when they update Quicktime, but this is just a little stupid.
It’s probably not just updating Safari, but also WebKit libraries.
I’ve always thought that Apple has just as much potential to be evil as Microsoft, but less opportunity. Now that Macs are regaining popularity, just you wait to see what comes out of Cupertino.
I can see having to restart all your web browsers, and maybe anything that’s got a pseudo-browser in it, like iTunes. But it seems to me that they’ve taken the lazy way out and rather than trying to restart the affected apps, or telling people to restart them, they just said “fuck it, if we reboot we *know* they’ve restarted the apps.
Frequently, making people reboot is the only way to be sure they’re really quitting and restarting the browser.
Sometimes it’s a “penalty reboot.”
Yeah. When I update daemon/server processes on my Linux box, I’ll reboot it, even though all I really need to do is start/stop the process in question.
It’s the only way to be CERTAIN that the init scripts are working correctly.
Joe, you’re never going to win the uptimes DSWs that way. One of the things I like about Debian versus RedHat is that it seems to do a much better job of updating things in place without rebooting the whole system.