[ 17 Nov 03 22:18, Robert Comer wrote to Geo. ]

 RC> The physical act of applying patches in Linux is easier, that's all I
 RC> said...

Only if the affected program/library is well maintained for your flavour of
Linux.  It doesn't take long for older distros to become unsupported, and
installing a newer version gets you trapped in a big inter-dependency
shitstorm where upgrading that one package requires you to upgrade almost
every other damn thing on the system.  Even with apt-get to handle it,
that's still hairy stuff that is likely to break things to had no intention
of messing with.

For the most part, applying a patch in Windows means running setup.exe and
restarting the service, logging off, or at most rebooting.


-- Scott Little  [fidonet#3:712/848 / sysgod{at}sysgod.org]

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