Benjamin Scott wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 wrote:
> > ... SP6a for Windows NT 4.0 ... about 53MB IIRC. They just announced ...
> > their first patch kit for Windows 2000. It's 83MB. This is progress?
>
> Unfortunately, that is not a useful metric.
>
> $ cd /nti/adm/pkgs/redhat
> $ du -hs 6.1/updates
> 144M 6.1
> $ du -hs 6.2/updates
> 286M 6.2
>
> Red Hat has Microsoft well beat in terms of the size of their patch sets.
>
Except:
1. The RH updates are total over a period of time, W2K is SP1.
2. RH updates are for lots of things besides the "OS" (even including
all the stuff MS calls OS that isn't)
3. RH updates are individual packages - you can update what you want
to, ignore updates for what you don't install (or don't want to update
because it's not security related & you're stable). Try updating IIS
only with SP1
(of course, the best update for W2K starts with "fdisk," but that's
another saga)
--
jeff smith
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