When to update?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 14:40:10 UTC 2007
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
>
>> If you are connected to the internet in any way, your machine will get
>> hacked and you will become part of a botnet serving spam or worse. This is
>> pretty much an inevitability.
>
> I don't think the danger is that great.
>
> In any case, are you saying this is less likely to occur
> if you are running CentOS than Fedora?
On CentOS, security and bug fixes are suppled for many years for each
release. Yum update continues to be all you need to do as long as you
are happy with the application versions that release supplies.
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Les Mikesell
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