Re: The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

[Roman Drahtmueller <draht () suse de>]

>  
> I use Linux, OpenBSD and Windows in my enterprise.  Linux and OpenBSD use
> the "1 patch for 1 vulnerability" rule.  Seems to me that MS is bunching
> their patches together in order to make it seem on the surface that Windows
> has less patches than other Oses, therefore it is more secure.  CIOs, take
> note. 

It happens from time to time (today...) that several bugs get fixed with
one update package on SUSE Linux (and other Linuxes). But: One update 
package fixes one package, whereas one patch can consist of several update 
packages (in our patch management framework).

After all, it is a matter of transparency if you can manually,
individually select what update package you want on your system and which 
not. Probably even more important: You should also be able to see what 
_changes_ have been applied to every single update package. Otherwise, you 
just can't know what else has been "fixed"...

Regards,
Roman.
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