Less messages to FreeBSD.org lists

Lawrence Sica lomion at mac.com
Mon Jan 26 10:50:35 PST 2004


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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