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Story: Open source renders patching a problem

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The article seems rather silly, since it appears to be presenting a feature in which Windows has been playing catch up as one where they are ahead and have an advantage. Apt-get has most certainly been around longer than Windows Update, and there are plenty of other options used in various Linux distributions at present such as yum, urpmi, yast, etc. Trying to pretend that everyone uses Linux From Scratch seems rather pointless.

Then of course there is also the problem that production website administrators can usually not take advantage of automated updates, but must first run every update on some sort of a test server to see if it causes problems before putting it into production. This is the case regardless of the underlying operating system. This fact is nearly beside the point as far as the accuracy of the article goes, but it is still relevant considering its context.

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