From: "Geo" 

Yeah and the W2K cd is full of wizards (a cd is a cd)

Geo.

"/m"  wrote in message
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>
> 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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