On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:52:55PM +0100, Daniele Muscetta wrote: > Dave Horsfall said: > > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Daniele Muscetta wrote: > >> ....I know, you roughly have some 26 Megabytes of patches to be > >> installed POST-SP4 and POST IE60SP1 on W2K. > >> Is any other OS any better lately ? > > > > OpenBSD. FreeBSD. NetBSD. BSD/OS. See the pattern? > > Yes I do. > Even if patching of a BSD box is not something that anybody can do, just > like everyone uses windowsupdate / up2date / yast / apt-get and > similar.... > ...you know what I mean: grab the source code patch / diff file, patch the > code, recompile... and possibly recompile everything that is statically > linked to that component/library....On big server farms this could still be > annoying... not to say the > obvious, like I cannot imagine my mum managing being able to do ANYTHING > with such an OS, while she CAN windowsupdate (and she does) :)
FreeBSD has freebsd-update nowadays. -Guido _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
