On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Cowboy wrote:
> Generally, *nix updates are issued for some obscure partial vulnerability > that was able to be forced in a lab under very specific conditions unlikely > to occur in the real world. And many of them will be for things that have little if any business running on a Rivendell box, such as OpenOffice or Firefox. On some flavors of Linux -- not CentOS, apparently, or Debian 6.0 -- a kernel update will break the asi-hpi driver, which then has to be recompiled. > Windows updates are not issued until after millions of machines have > been compromised, and problems have been reported multiple times. Even when my clients run Windows-based automation systems, I advise them not to take updates but to isolate their systems from potential threats instead. Few things are as frustrating as AudioVault in a bad mood. A former client reported to me that some WideOrbit machines are sensitive to different versions of Java, and one of his stations got into trouble when someone responded to one of those annoying "A new version of Java is ready to be installed!" prompts. Rob _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
