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Originally posted by hawkmoon
Fine if you want to sit back being complacent thinking it will never happen to me - so be it.
This is the last I am going to say on the matter as it is clear that you seem to think your are invunerable to any exploit or virus!
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Now your putting words into my mouth. At no point have I said that I am invuneranble to exploits and viruses, at no point have I said that I am complacent. I am anything but and have just spent the morning updating several SuSE pro servers and one SLOX machine.
I have been saying that due to the nature by which Linux has been created and the security models used, that it offers far, far superiour protection against viruses and has far fewer actually useful exploits than its competitor. You have been responding with inane statements and worthless generalities, at no time countering the points I raised.
Edit: For the spectators
The 40 - 60 Meg downloads our helldesk slave is refering to include things such as an optimised kernel (20Megs easy), Product updates (not security related), Drivers that are not allowed to be commercially distributed (such as nVidia), Font packs (such as MS's) a few additonal programs that they would have liked to include on the disks but left off by mistake or due to lack of space and updates and security patches for _every_ piece of software that the update manager can detect.
This doesnt even remotely compare with windows update which only offers critical fixes and MS only product updates, complete with altered EULA's.
Regards,
Ben