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Story: Open source renders patching a problem
Posted by: Barak Korren (Friday 18 November 2005, 9:00 PM)
As with anything open-source and free software, it is always wrong to think in terms of one solution.
Linux is not *an* operating system, it is a a whole group of operating systems.
And so, there is no one (centrel, big, ...) patch management but many different, robust, efficient and well established, patch mangement systems.
Debian (And co.) users are well served by the famous apt-get system which will happily upgrade or patch any component of your system be it Apace or your webbrowser.
RedHad users are similarily served by RHN.
Fedora users have a choice between apt-rpm and yum.
There will never be one big solutions to anything in the open source world, this is how Monopolies work, not the open-source community.
Full Talkback thread
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
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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 -
What a pointless article. Any of the mainstream D... Anonymous
