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Story: Open source renders patching a problem
Posted by: Bill DuPree (Friday 18 November 2005, 4:11 AM)
States the bleeding obvious. An admin should always know what's running on their servers regardless of whether is Windows, Linux, BSD, etc.
What it doesn't state is that all major Linux distributions have automated patching that is the equal to, if not superior to, Microsoft's update methodology. Instead the implication is that FOSS offerings are somehow a big risk because they are unpatched.
An unpatched and insecure server OS in either the Windows or Linux case results solely from poor administration.
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Story: Open source renders patching a problem
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Complete bull. I do run Open Source technology and... Arthur B. -
States the bleeding obvious. An admin should alway... Bill DuPree -
All Linux distros I know that use openssl have an... Marc Deslauriers
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This is a non-issue for package managed distributi... Anonymous
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This is a non-issue for package managed distributi... Anonymous
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Does anybody with a production server use MS autom... Anonymous
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On the other hand, the open source community conti... Anonymous
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I have to disagree with this article. I think the... Julian Woods
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yum -y update....done. Create a cron job and do it... Anonymous
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To say that Linux doesn't have a patch management... John Lewis
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Do facilities like Debian's Apt-Get and Redhat's c... Anonymous
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STUPID article.
Here's how I do patch management:... David F. Skoll
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The comment about opensource pathch mamange ment i... Anonymous
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This is what Yum and Apt are for on RPM and DEB-ba... Ben Williams
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The article seems rather silly, since it appears t... Anonymous
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Ignorant rubbish! Why didn't you research before w... Carla Schroder
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I run SuSE Linux 9.3... on my desktop. The very th... Anonymous
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Regarding patch management, I think you're somewha... Anonymous
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SpikeSource's products and services address this v... Anonymous
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As with anything open-source and free software, it... Barak Korren
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What a pointless article. Any of the mainstream D... Anonymous
