RE: Why would anyone do this to themselves?

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 10:00, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 09:38, Anthony Boynes wrote:
> > --- Bart Garst <bartgarst@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Now, I'm off to do my system upgrades (Debian Sarge), 133 packages to be
> > > upgraded over the last couple weeks, (kinda puts the hundreds of patches
> > > quote into perspective).
> > >
> > > Bart
> > >
> >
> > Debian Sarge is still a designated testing release. How many of those are
> > actually security fixes? How many security updates have been issued for
> > Debian stable recently?
> >

I counted 10 over the last 2 weeks. My updates actually involved 100
packages. It takes a while but I read the bug reports and change logs
for them too. I came across a dozen or so bug fixes (couldn't say if
they were security related or not).

> > Maybe MS should follow Debian's model of stable, testing, unstable, etc.
> > ;)
> ---
> you should send them your suggestion ;-)

Yeah, I bet they'd thank you for it - 3 new OS's to sell!

>
> Obviously updates - for security or maintenance issues are part of every
> OS.
>
> I thought the more important issue was the statement by Balmer a week or
> so ago that security updates for IE were only going to happen for WinXP
> - SP2 versions - pretty much obsoleting any other version of Windows. I
> expected to hear a lot of repercussions on that issue but it remains a
> sleeper.
>
> Craig

I got an update notification about IE yesterday (yes, I have Windows
systems too). I use the auto notification thing. It's worth noting that
I use it for Win98 only, the license for the WinME & XP version allow M$
access to your data, the Win98 version does not.

Bart

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