Less messages to FreeBSD.org lists

Colin Percival colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk
Mon Jan 26 10:46:01 PST 2004


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




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