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Sermo Malifer wrote:
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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Matt wrote:
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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Not to mention the fact that Windows does not have a centralised
patching
mechanism. <snip>
That's not a fact, it's an outright lie. Windows has automatic
downloading and patching from a central store.
Maybe he meant that patching of Windows apps isn't centralized.
Patching of Linux apps is in a sense centralized for each major distro.
This works only if someone gets all of their software from the distro
repositotries using the package manager. Once someone goes outside of this
and installs software on their own (RPMs via "alien" or an app they download
themselves or something like VMWare tools) then this centralized update
manager won't update those applications.
Ha ha, yes, I know, but most users have only a few such apps.
Each major Linux distributor saves up the non-critical updates and
releases them many at once.
On Windows I get pestered as much by iTunes alone as I do by all my
Ubuntu apps put together.
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