A
popup window that one sees often after installing
software or changing
settings on a
Microsoft Windows system. The
inference is that in order to
assimilate the change, the system needs to be
reconfigured at the
kernel level, which requires a reboot.
As somewhat of a Unix zealot I fail to see why installing a software package or changing the TCP/IP settings should neccesitate the reboot of the system.
It is possible to install software onto a Solaris system using pkgadd without ever having to reboot the machine. Indeed if every utility I installed onto a production system required a scheduled outage, I'd be hung, drawn and quartered.