Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:50:20 -0500 From: Lawrence Sica <lomion@mac.com> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Less messages to FreeBSD.org lists Message-ID: <7D8253A2-5030-11D8-9620-000393A335A2@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040126183938.046fcec0@imap.sfu.ca> References: <4013EA9D.6040808@cream.org> <20040125134151.M52260@mail.tacorp.net> <20040125185753.GA12995@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <40141B3D.9070901@cream.org> <20040125194721.GA28036@xor.obsecurity.org> <40143CC3.6010709@cream.org> <401514D3.7020808@iconoplex.co.uk> <6.0.1.1.1.20040126133123.0465b398@imap.sfu.ca> <40152488.8070309@iconoplex.co.uk> <6.0.1.1.1.20040126183938.046fcec0@imap.sfu.ca>
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On Jan 26, 2004, at 1:44 PM, Colin Percival wrote: > At 14:30 26/01/2004, Paul Robinson wrote: >> Colin Percival wrote: >>> I'd say that a more useful option would be to add code which >>> "pings" a server every day with a request for binary security >>> updates. >> >> Oooh.... now we're heading into the realms of Windows Update, and >> we know how badly that can behave at times. > > Yes and no. Windows Update can behave badly. But I'm not talking > about Windows Update; I'm talking about FreeBSD Update, which is very > well behaved (and *much* faster, for that matter). > > Colin Percival > > Ever see the OS X Software Update? It works really well. --Larry
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