I can easily update all of my software with the latest security updates.
Well , if I am not wrong this is only specific to Debian. (BTW : I don't know Debian :
I want to take advantage of this opportunity and ask : does
only non-stable Debian have this feature or also the stable Debian?)
And I assume it is possible to install in Debian a program not by using that util ? (like running ./config and make and make install)? (So this DEbian util does not cover all )
I am using RH and Fedora; there is up2date util , but it does not cover everything
(since there are sw packages which comes with an installer of their own,etc).
Windows of course does not have such a util; there is LiveUpdate and Microsoft WindowUpdate and
service packs; However, if you take other linux distros linux into account , you can't tell that this is really
an advantage (unless there are some more distros which have this feature - I don't know of such).
Regards, Dan Kaspi
From: Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re: Moving to Linux Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 16:42:30 +0300
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 04:20:22PM +0300, Josh Zlatin-Amishav wrote: > On Sun, 8 May 2005, Dan Kaspi wrote:
> > When listing the main advantages of Linux , the most important one
> >I had thought of was security ; when you access the internet from a Linux
> >machine, chances that you get a virus or spyware or someone will intrude
> >your machine are smaller ; He answered that , when thinking in the long
> >term (2-3 years) , as more people will use linux as a desktop,
> >this can be easiy changed; moreover, he claimed that since Linux is an
> >open source,
> >maybe it is even easier to develop viruses/spyware to it. In this point
> >I did not know what to answer him. I am not a
> >security expert; it could be that he is right in this point.
>
> Hi Dan,
> Your friend is correct, it may be in fact easier to develop malware for
> OSS. Yet the same problem (access to the source code) makes it harder to
> hide "bad" code.
But also gives incentives to vendors to fix problems and not hide them. So far this has worked very well.
(Naturally, being free software is not a magic bullet or anything)
> You are also not dependant on one source to provide fixes > to the problematic code.
Actually: I get all of my software from Debian. I get all of my fixes from Debian. On windows I see people with software from multiple vendors. Even free software on windows isn't usially custumized by a ditributor like in Linux.
I can easily update all of my software with the latest security updates. Can you say the same about any non-free installation?
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