[THIN] Re: Discussion: Microsoft to release patches onceper month
- From: "David Demers" <david.demers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 14:02:52 -0700
Have you seen this?
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/12/sco_christmas.html
:)
-David
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Kenzig http://thethin.net [mailto:jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 1:53 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Discussion: Microsoft to release patches onceper
month
Not to mention the fact that you risk getting sued by SCO if you use flavors
of UNIX/Linux. ; ) Torvalds is right they are smoking crack! Now they are
going to sue IBM for copyright infringment of Unix which they now claim they
fully own.
I know MS is not going to sue me if I buy their products.
JK
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Joe Shonk
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 3:27 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Discussion: Microsoft to release patches onceper
month
SP1a cuts the number of patches by 20 or so, there is still another 20-25 to
go. Funny you mention SP1a, it exists only because of a BS move to remove
Java from Windows XP as Microsoft can't play nice with Sun. Nice.
I'm simply saying that MS could/can do a better job. They can also roll-up
the security patches more often. You'd think we'd have IE SP2 by now.
Anyways, FreeBSD and Linux are nice but not Corporate Desktop ready. So no,
people don't have a choice yet. Granted, it's getting close. But no ciga
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Matt Kosht
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 11:48 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Discussion: Microsoft to release patches onceper month
Microsoft has released SP1a for XP. This includes a lot of the security
patches you would have to download individually via Windows update. It
is however a 134MB download.
http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/pro/downloads/servicepacks/sp1/default.as
p
For differences between SP1 and SP1a
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813926
I am not at all keen on MS rushing untested or superficially tested
service packs as the cure can be worse than the ill.
p.s. Remember there is a choice on the desktop. You don't have to run MS
at all. Check out FreeBSD or a Linux distribution like Redhat.
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