Linux Community Magazine

Overnight, I received an email from a friend, forwarding me an article from Redmond magazine. The theme of the magazine was the huge Patch Tuesday dump our friends in Redmond have sent down. There was also some discussion about the patch bundle Adobe and Oracle as well as deleted. In the words of the author of the article, it is a heavy burden for just this month. The email, but what I wanted was to highlight. My friend said to me:

Here is a good indication for Linux! ("Load ya 16 patches and Whaddayaget?") Another day, older and deeper in debt.Peter dontcha take me because I can not Goooooo; I owe my soul to the Microsoft Stooooore "(-_mit_Entschuldigung_an_Tennessee_Ernie_Ford)."

I'm sure there are a number of Linux people who wake up and Windows pointed to your friends and say I told you so, but I can assure you, most of these people are not professional Linux administrators. Most of us use Linux for a living would say in fact, not so fast.... In the last two weeks, I have a number of things that patched on my Fedora 13 system. I say, because I was actually not exactly what attention was things is that I don't really pay patched, pretty much the same way much attention to what Microsoft or Oracle (Adobe) this week patch. Now you could argue that I not only should attention, but I check each patch before I apply for relevancy and value. Yes, OK. Show of hands, who has time for that? Yes, there are some of you out there that not only each patch test, but the effects we know to have on your systems. Further, you also know that your system is lost the amount of money down for even a second, to pay more than enough for testing and systems, the need to test patches when you come out. But take it on faith that most of us. We need.Linux is one of the safest on the market today.This is because the model of access (least privilege) and intensive control of Codes.Aber even with an average of one bug per 1000 lines of code, we have even patches, security issues and uses that we always alert his müssen.Es is easy for us, our fingers and laugh show, but we should not become complacent.

View the original article here