Re: Re: Microsoft Security, baby steps ?

[Guido van Rooij <guido () gvr org>]

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

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