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Story: Open source renders patching a problem

Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 18 November 2005, 5:01 PM)

Regarding patch management, I think you're somewhat misinformed in that the vendor of the server distribution should be responsible for automating updates and most do a good job of it. They provide the patch built in whatever packaging system your OS uses, usually in a short timeframe after it is available from the vendor (in this case the OpenSSL project). I just don't see the issue for production-level systems.

Where patch-management falls apart is for the individual user/hobbyist who doesn't properly use the patch tools available whether or not those are Microsoft or Linux or other UNIXes.

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Story: Open source renders patching a problem

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
This is a non-issue for package managed distributi... Anonymous
This is a non-issue for package managed distributi... Anonymous
Does anybody with a production server use MS autom... Anonymous
On the other hand, the open source community conti... Anonymous
I have to disagree with this article. I think the... Julian Woods
yum -y update....done. Create a cron job and do it... Anonymous
To say that Linux doesn't have a patch management... John Lewis
Do facilities like Debian's Apt-Get and Redhat's c... Anonymous
STUPID article. Here's how I do patch management:... David F. Skoll
The comment about opensource pathch mamange ment i... Anonymous
This is what Yum and Apt are for on RPM and DEB-ba... Ben Williams
The article seems rather silly, since it appears t... Anonymous
Ignorant rubbish! Why didn't you research before w... Carla Schroder
I run SuSE Linux 9.3... on my desktop. The very th... Anonymous
Regarding patch management, I think you're somewha... Anonymous
SpikeSource's products and services address this v... Anonymous
As with anything open-source and free software, it... Barak Korren
What a pointless article. Any of the mainstream D... Anonymous

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It seems to me this is a burden being placed on the wrong shoulders. There is not an It system in the world that can stop an individual taking information in their heads and spewing out at the nearest undesirable third party.