View Poll Results: When's the last time you patched your OS?

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    Patchy

    When's the last time you patched your OS?

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    Windows hasn't asked me to in a few days. Surprising.

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    Today, but I only had to because I installed new hardware and the drivers shipped with it were painfully out of date.

    (and on a related note, I now have zero free PCI slots. No more upgrades for me )

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    The last critical update was weeks ago, so then.

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    A couple of weeks ago, for no particular reason other than that I haven't done it for a long, long time before that.
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    Weeks, I often go to the windows update site myself instead of the regular sort of sheduled update by windows.

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    <s>Never. I use linux. </s> Or so I wish, but even linux gets patches anyway, so yeah

    I guess weeks ago whenever that ASM.1 bug patch thingy for XP came out - I don't bother get every last patch that comes out, only ones I think are important to me. (Although, I think the RPC one isn't important to me since I have a firewall running at all times, but I got that patch anyway). I think Windows Update for automatic updates is evil, and I disable it on all my machines
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    Windows update doesn't list any critical packages. They haven't for months now. Is this a good sign? Where else am I supposed to find 'must have' patches?

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    They list them. They just only release patches on a monthly basis rather than as soon as they're ready. Which is stupid.

    I haven't patched Windows in a while. I should, but y'know.


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    Well right now I'm on my Imac since my dell like blew up and wont work so I have never patched this thing. I almost want this computer to die.

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    Originally posted by Guu
    <s>Never. I use linux. </s> Or so I wish, but even linux gets patches anyway, so yeah
    Um, Linux gets patched more than Windows. The patch number of the kernel can change daily.

    And that's just the kernel.

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    Vast majority of those aren't critical patches though. Patches are how the kernel is written to begin with. Compare kernel patches to internel MS development processes.

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    *tempted to paste the entire text of the Cathedral and the Bazaar*

    And I think you're understating that, Unne. You could still run a 2.2 kernel if you really wanted to. But of course, you wouldn't want to.

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