Updates

[Karl Larsen]

Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 12:22 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> I had to load a new FC6 on my laptop and when I brought it up the 
>> Package Updater told me there was 277 Updates! I see they are many of 
>> them just replacement RPM's of the whole thing. I used to hate Windows
>> for all their update packages :-)
>>     
>
> At least with Linux, the updates replace the broken stuff on your
> machine, and you don't need to hang onto to the update packages.  ;-)
>
> I've watched Windows fill up the drive with downloaded patches that you
> must keep on the drive, and it applies some patches on top of what it's
> doing each run-time (booting gets slower and slower).
>
>   
    Yes the HUGE advantage of Linux over Windows is the file system and 
the update system. RPM files are great and you never defragment a Linux 
file system. My wife still likes Windows because she likes the solatare 
game.

Karl