I stopped reading the article after they said that MCLX was
competing with RH and Turbo as a Linux Distro. Useless dribble...
B
But since we're talking about about M$ service packs, my personal
favorite was SP5. It introduced 13 security holes, 5 of which
were re-introductions, since SP4 had fixed them. Now *THAT* is
progress ;-)
Kenny
Jeffry Smith wrote:
>
> 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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