From: "Geo" 

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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