[Nottingham] Response on awareness day

Matthew Sackman matthew at sackman.co.uk
Thu Nov 3 20:30:42 GMT 2005


On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:49:33PM +0000, Andy Davidson wrote:
> If common distributions didn't release every few months, there'd be a 
> realistic chance of offering pre-installed units.

That doesn't make complete sense tbh - most good distributions offer a
fairly effective upgrade mechanism which should take care of that, and
let's face it, you have to do that with Windows anyway within 0.3s if
you want to have any chance of not being hacked...
-- 
Matthew Sackman

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