full-disclosure - [OT] Re: Knocking Microsoft

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From: robert at timetraveller.org (Robert Brockway)
Subject: [OT] Re: Knocking Microsoft

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, James P. Saveker wrote:

> Microsoft has and how poor this is.  As everybody subscribing to this list
> and similar zone-h, bugtraq etc will know Linux has many warnings posted
> also.  Yet I rarely hear people talking about that and indeed how it is far
> more difficult to keep linux distro's up to date.  Windows has a far greater

% apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Want to install apache-ssl?

% apt-get install apache-ssl

All dependencies (including security updates) taken care of.

Yeah you're right, that was hard :)

Try Debian GNU/Linux and tell me again that Linux is hard to maintain.
Most OS development teams/companies should aspire for their OSes to be
half as easy to maintain as Debian.

Cheers,
	Rob