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RE: The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vul nerabilities, MS04-011
From: Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:40:31 -0500 (CDT)
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This merely begs the question, why do they not then release the patches as both? A single "patch'em all" one for single users and those who can afford to implement patches this way, and a broken out set of the patch that can be more thoroughly tested in larger scale environments where the big patch solution doesn't work.
a major contributing factor is dependencies, and as others pointed out we are seeing more and more of that in the linux desktop realm as well, and even in the other major unix vendor realms too. you can't often fix one little .exe or .com file iin an env whence the browser acts as the kernel which acts as then shell which acts as an individual applicaton that replaces 20 applications once produced by various vendors now bought out and sucked into the core OS...but, redhat already is the 'windows' of the linux world and suse is not far behind if it remains so now. Thanks, Ron DuFresne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart ***testing, only testing, and damn good at it too!*** OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't touch anything. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- RE: The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vul nerabilities, MS04-011 Kim Oppalfens (Apr 14)
- Re: The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vul nerabilities, MS04-011 Dave Sherohman (Apr 14)
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- RE: The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vul nerabilities, MS04-011 Tremaine Lea (Apr 14)
- RE: The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vul nerabilities, MS04-011 Ron DuFresne (Apr 14)
- RE: The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vul nerabilities, MS04-011 Ng, Kenneth (US) (Apr 15)