From: Tim Boyer 

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 20:30:16 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in
>message news:44acaa52{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> > So? A cd is 700mb so what this tells me is that every program
on that CD
>got
>> > exploited in 3 months, that's insane!
>> >
>>
>> Ummm no. (A) It's like having a vast collection of software not simply
>> an OS & (B) it depends if it was updates or security updates. if it was
>> updates then any updates wot ave been released into the wild & bundled
>> up in the required install format will come down the pipe.
>
>Ok follow the logic here.
>
>I get the CD and install the OS and whatever apps I want, right? So now
>every 3 months I have to update every file on my computer if I want to stay
>secure since every file has been updated and I can't tell the security
>updates from the other updates.
>
>It's still seems nuts to me.
>
>Geo.
>

That's one of the reasons they split it between the 'bleeding edge' distro
- Fedora - and the business distro, Red Hat Enterprise.

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tim boyer
tim{at}denmantire.com

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