On Saturday 12 June 2004 15:49, Damon Jebb wrote:
But SuSE 9.1 never will be (ready pathced). There will be 'security patches' to be downloaded if you want it to be secure against any newly discovered vulnerabilities, and there will be many of them before it is no longer available on the local computer store shelf.
The difference is the patches in linux of late fix theoretical holes, not holes that get your machine infected 15 minutes after you turn it on, and not holes that cause it to become a spammers zombie. And 9.1 will be replaced by 9.2 before longhorn hits the streets. In the meantime, XP is still broken out of the box - has been for two years and shows no sign of being fixed - Even AFTER SP2 is released it will be shipped as is. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen