[K12OSN] Re: K12LTSP demo - any suggestions?

[Rob Owens]

I can tell you how it is with Mandrake.  There are 3 types of updates:  security, bugfix, and general product updates.

Security updates aren't necessarily similar to Microsoft's security updates.  Most security updates I've seen so far are for a specific application, and not for the operating system itself.  Furthermore, the security bug is usually something under certain circumstances could allow someone on the local network to see somebody else's files (if they bothered to try to look at them) or gain some other permissions or abilities that they shouldn't normally have.  In the couple of years that I've been running Mandrake Linux, I don't really recall seeing any bugs that would have allowed a remote hacker access to my machine.

I set up a cron job to perform updates automatically every night on my machine.  It saves a log file to my home directory so that I can check to make sure everything went through ok.  I suppose I am running the risk that someday an update will run that will screw up my system (possibly because of a poorly coded package update), but I will have a record of what has been done and I can uninstall the offending package and reinstall the older version if necessary.

-Rob


 --- On Thu 11/11, Joseph Bishay < joseph.bishay at utoronto.ca > wrote:
From: Joseph Bishay [mailto: joseph.bishay at utoronto.ca]
To: k12osn at redhat.com
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:26:29 -0500
Subject: [K12OSN] Re: K12LTSP demo - any suggestions?

Hello,<br><br>> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:27:49 -0600<br>> From: Jim Hays <haysja at sages.us><br>> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] K12LTSP demo - any suggestions?<br>> <br>> Les makes a good point here.  I was at a conference yesterday and one<br>> of the sessions was an hour long session showing people how to use the<br>> new MS program to run automatic updates.  The session was long and the<br>> process was fairly tedious - running a separate server to store the<br>> updates and then "touching" all of the clients to tell them to get<br>> their updates from the new server and then making sure that the<br>> updates get run.<br>> <br>> In K12LTSP, ---->  yum update  (Doesn't take an hour to teach someone<br>> that.......)<br>> <br>> One of the HUGE advantages of K12LTSP.<br><br>This may be a silly question, but I've never used the update feature <br>in K12LTSP.  I see I could use synaptic or yum update, but my <br>question is: When would I do so? Is there a need to run yum <br>update/syn!
aptic?  If everything is running smoothly, what am I going <br>to be upgrading? I realize that in MS updates are often to correct <br>security issues, but I thought Linux was more immune to those sort of <br>lapses. Why else would I want to run it?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Joseph<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>K12OSN mailing list<br>K12OSN at redhat.com<br>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn<br>For more info see <http://www.k12os.org><br>

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