Welcome to another round of geek hair splitting.
Which part of
at least temporarily taken offline for any changes to take effect
do I need to rephrase to make it easier to understand?
You might not need to reboot the world's greatest invention since sliced bread (TM), but it certainly won't run through an update without having to babysit it or without a minimal downtime; and downtime, for a user, is when the system is not available to him. It does not necessarily mean downtime as in rebooting. For the customer, temporarily unavailable is temporarily unavailable.
Or to put it more bluntly: Nobody except for a few geeks gives a crap whether only a few services/daemons need to restart or the entire system goes through a five to ten minute boot process.
You have to announce a maintenance time window for either system, and you have to pay your staff to be there.
Besides, when do I *need* to reboot Windows? I can run my servers and workstations safely behind a hardware firewall until kingdom come and never need to install an update. In fact, there are many environments where it is strictly forbidden to install updates without a ton of accompanying QA.
Windows Server 2003 has never failed me, and I'm sure you guys will tell me the same about your Linux boxes.
/EOL
Which part of
at least temporarily taken offline for any changes to take effect
do I need to rephrase to make it easier to understand?
You might not need to reboot the world's greatest invention since sliced bread (TM), but it certainly won't run through an update without having to babysit it or without a minimal downtime; and downtime, for a user, is when the system is not available to him. It does not necessarily mean downtime as in rebooting. For the customer, temporarily unavailable is temporarily unavailable.
Or to put it more bluntly: Nobody except for a few geeks gives a crap whether only a few services/daemons need to restart or the entire system goes through a five to ten minute boot process.
You have to announce a maintenance time window for either system, and you have to pay your staff to be there.
Besides, when do I *need* to reboot Windows? I can run my servers and workstations safely behind a hardware firewall until kingdom come and never need to install an update. In fact, there are many environments where it is strictly forbidden to install updates without a ton of accompanying QA.
Windows Server 2003 has never failed me, and I'm sure you guys will tell me the same about your Linux boxes.
/EOL