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Security Patches by Modem? Forget it!
Scott Granneman, 2004-03-24

Let's face it - there is no way for dial-up users on any major operating system to keep their computers up-to-date and patched. OK, maybe "no way" is an exaggeration. How about, "a difficult, burdensome, time-consuming, very prone to failure way?"

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550mb of patches/upgrades? 2004-03-28
Anonymous

You either need to start doing initial installs with current releases of the distribution...or pick another dist. (A full install of Slackware == ~2gb, so 550mb of patches would mean having to upgrade over a quarter of the entire system... which is crap.)

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