There are 5 replies, with the last one on 07/16/2008 at 1:00:56 PM by sixdoubleo Quote: As the author briefly eluded to in the article, Vista is merely looking at OS and Office updates. Linux is looking at every single software and component installed. The fact that the software and components come on the distribution DVD is irrelevant. A brand new Dell installs many applications out of the gate…many of which are possibly out of date by the time you get the box plugged in at home, but Windows Update doesn’t tell you that. If you could somehow tell Windows Update to report on every update available for your virus scanner, Adobe Reader, Java, Google Toolbar, Kodak Photo Manager, and every other freeware application you’ve installed, then you’d have a more appropriate comparison of updates. All Linux software is community developed, and thus is under a state of continuous redevelopment and change. This is just simply the nature of the beast and it’s what you signed up for when you installed a free Linux distribution. Commercial software companies only release updates when absolutely necessary, whereas it isn’t uncommon for an open source/freeware author to release a daily build. I’m not saying that one model is better than the other…just that one gets daily/weekly updates, the other gets less frequent updates. Another thing to keep in mind is that the very nature of most of the free Linux distributions is that they are development sandboxes for a more stable and tested commercial product. For instance, today’s Fedora Core 9 is the development build that will become Red Hat Linux in about a year. In some respects, Fedora Core could be thought of as a “Release Candidate”. A new version of Fedora Core is released every 6 months or so, which makes it a less-than-ideal platform for critical production applications. Comparing its patch count to the much more stable Vista or 2008 really isn’t appropriate. I know this article is primarily in response to the ignorant Linux kiddies (most of whom don’t actually even USE Linux) but either way, I don’t feel those folks even warrant a response. Anyway, yes Linux sucks..blah blah blah…I don’t really care which is better (I like both). I just have a problem with the article’s premise (cuz it’s wrong).

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