On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
It also demonstrates a point where Linux is actually stronger than Windows.
Once a Linux machine is set up as long as the tasks it performs and the hardware connected to it doesn't change, there is very little that needs to be maintained.
Windows machines on the other hand, require <snip> constant updates for even the lowest degree of secure computing<more snip>
I'm not at all sure Linux has that big an advantage here. The last three or four evenings, I've had apt-get busily downloading some insane number of megabytes of kernel images that have been updated due to security flaws. Admittedly, this problem is partly of my own making (I decided hard drive space was not a scarce resource, and installed some kernels, and a lot of other stuff, that I don't use,) but I have a very complete Windows install too, and can't recall Windows update ever clogging up my dial-up connection quite that much.
Incidentally, the updated kernels are expected to take up far less space on my hard drive than they're using on the network connection; perhaps the compression on the .debs is less than optimal?