Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

Quoth Garance A Drosihn on Wed, May 24, 2006 at 15:40:23 -0400
The answer is: build host + jails for a testing environment...
This'll reduce your actual downtime.
Did you just tell him to get another computer for each arch
to have as a build machine???

Being a broke college student I don't think that's something
I'd ever do to install updates on my boxes. I can't afford
another computer just to build updates when every other OS
I use does updates in another way....

If you are a college student with a few machines that
you work with, then you can afford some downtime.

Why? Just because I am from a mathematics department with no money for
hardware at all does not mean that our VLE does not have to run all the
time.

So, same question with three machines: home, office and off shore
server. How do I keep them all up to date without having to run the
patches three times?...

BTW, I consider pre-compiled packages to good (easy to install, etc...)
and bad (no fine tuning, etc...) while compile are good for exactly the
opposite reasons. Not sure which is best.

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