From: /m 


Quite different animals.

 /m

On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:20:43 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>Yeah and the W2K cd is full of wizards (a cd is a cd)
>
>Geo.
>
>"/m"  wrote in message
>news:jn4la2pgcbuo3d7rid3kdseulk5eg9r1v0{at}4ax.com...
>>
>> In these comparisons, you need to keep in mind that (for better or
>> worse) the Linux OS's come with a lot of apps as part of the OS
>> distribution.  Those apps are patched as well.
>>
>> Is that aggregating of apps a good thing?  I'm of two minds.  On one
>> hand, Ubuntu does a very good job of bundling important apps.  While
>> other distributions seem to bundle multiple apps of the same genre
>> (e.g., two different email clients), and putting them all on the menu
>> system.
>>
>> I like the Ubuntu approach, personally, because it allows me to get
>> started and then branch out to other apps once I've got my feet on the
>> ground.
>>
>>  /m
>>
>> On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 11:16:37 -0400, "Geo"
 wrote:
>>
>> >Windows 2000 CD (any CD, server, workstation, whatever), if you take it
>from
>> >release in 2000, apply SP4 and all patches you are at 268mb of patches
>132mb
>> >of which is sp4 that was released 6/2003. So since 6/2003,
it's had 140mb
>of
>> >patches.
>> >
>> >Geo.
>> >
>> >"Mike N."  wrote in message
>> >news:uomka25te08aogq7dd0tpv5o4nf78i6ksu{at}4ax.com...
>> >> On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 00:17:39 -0400, "Geo"
 wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >600mb since June, that's ONE MONTH of updates?
>> >>
>> >>    I double checked the DVD - it was created on
3/15/2006.  So that's
>600
>> >> MB in 3 1/2 months that it took to get the DVD into the
distribution
>> >> channel.   That is similar to the 200 MB/month seen by Rich's last
>Apple
>> >> update one month after purchase.
>> >>
>> >>    XP installs from one CD, Fedora takes about 4 CDs for
install.   So
>> >> there's more software and tools included with Fedora
compared to XP.
>In
>> >> addition, there is no attempt to restrict updates in this
distribution
>to
>> >> security fixes only.  So every odd package having the
most trivial of
>> >> updates will be downloaded.    RedHat Enterprise Linux (and CentOS)
>would
>> >> have less frequent updates, however the volume might be as large
>because
>> >of
>> >> the number of tools.
>> >>
>> >>    So, Apple & Linux definitely require a high speed internet
>connection
>> >to
>> >> be completely kept up to date.
>> >
>

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