hows this: http://www.indiainfoline.com/news/news.asp?dat=61173
:D. Such FUD is part of its campaign to counter the FLOSS attack. Geez, this coming a month after i have seen an enterprise with 500+ MS machine bite the dust due to virus attacks for patches released mmonths ago.
The management folks and analysts who come up with such reports forget that its not only the ease of patching but also the enormous amounts of patches from MS that kill the sys admins.
Trevor
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Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
hows this: http://www.indiainfoline.com/news/news.asp?dat=61173
This may be a dumb question :) but why does linux need to be patched??? We select a distro based on its success reports and it is anyway configured to be secure.
It should not be a problem for free distros to add automatic updaters in their software to update just like microsoft's updates.
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Rony.
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On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 03:24:25PM +0530, Rony Bill wrote:
This may be a dumb question :) but why does linux need to be patched??? We select a distro based on its success reports and it is anyway configured to be secure.
For the reasons that others have posted. Software is always getting patched and updated.
It should not be a problem for free distros to add automatic updaters in their software to update just like microsoft's updates.
See Ubuntu. As for automatic, open software prefers to let you have control, so you will rarely see nag screens forcing you to update.
Sometime Today, RB cobbled together some glyphs to say:
It should not be a problem for free distros to add automatic updaters in their software to update just like microsoft's updates.
Auto update is a security risk. Think DNS hijacks. MD5 hashes help, but you've got to get the hash from a trusted source first.
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