KLEZ Virus

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi,

Well, I upgraded from RH 7.2 to 8.0 with no trouble!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@azapple.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 6:49 PM
Subject: re: KLEZ Virus


> On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 14:12, Phil Mattison wrote:
> > As I expected, lots of folks disagreed with my assertion that
> > too many updates are a bad thing. I agree that updates are essential
> > for some users, and would not suggest eliminating them.
> > Still, there are many users for whom the only updates are new
> > releases of Windows. That happens once every couple of years,
> > and that is too often for some. We may look down our noses at
> > such illiterati, but they still represent the bulk of the consumer
market.
> > What I would like to see is a level of ease-of-use closer to that
> > offered by Windows. I just bought a copy of RedHat 8.0 to upgrade
> > from 7.2, but I suspect I will have to start from the disk partition
> > step and repeat the entire install and configuration process, which
> > is much harder than with Windows, even if you know what you're doing.
> > I know I could upgrade the kernel and each little piece every time
> > a bulletin comes out about some new security vulnerability, but not
> > every update is necessary and its a pain in the @$$ to be tinkering
> > with all the time. Its like having a car that needs a tune-up three
> > times a week. I think RedHat and the other major commercial
> > distros have the right idea, but just don't go far enough. Maybe
> > I should just stop whining and accept the fact that using any OS
> > is a recipe for exponentially increasing complexity. That's why
> > we get the big bucks, right? ;-)
> > --
> -----
> up2date -u
>
> It's been in Redhat distro's since 7.0
>
> It completely handles installing updates - by default, all except
> kernel.
>
> you can set it up as a cron job once a week and you'll never know that
> the updates are being downloaded & installed unless you check the log.
>
> Of course the debian folks had to sound off about the apt-get, which is
> available for redhat but it is 3rd party.
>
> Craig
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