Dan Hatton wrote:
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. <<<
I reinstalled my three-year-old copy of W2k on Monday (well you have to every few months, doncha?). By the time I'd done updating IE6, SP4, Media Player and all the other gumph I was well over 200MB. That's only a guess, mind, as I wasn't really counting; thanks to broadband.
-- GT