Says who? Some foreign rag quoting the Linux lab itself? Gimme a break!
Linux is a major pain to install and especially update. I saw a Red Hat system - supposedly the best - take six hours to complete up2date. It sat there for three of them saying "searching for headers to resolve dependencies" or some other nonsense.
pain to update?
pclinuxos you hit update and 10 minutes later from a fresh install it's done.
the wife's XP got a fresh install and days later it finally caught up and had everything updated.
piss poor arguement again tarnished buzzard.
one distro with a slow package does not mean linux is a pain to update
Must I school you again? http://howto.homelinux.net/swf/yum.html The only difference in this flash between updating and installing is I would click the update tab and the hit an update button...
I saw a Red Hat system - supposedly the best - take six hours to complete up2date.
Funny I freshly installed an XP Pro system the other day and it took about as long.. You're leaving out little factors like (what release was it?, what was the network speed?, what was the disk configuration?) these and any number of other things can make *ANY* system take a long time to update.
^^^^^^^^^take six hours to complete up2date.^^^^^^^^^^^
A one stop shop even with that much time still takes less time than a windows box.(assuming your number of 6 hours is accurate)
What applications do you run? 12 separate apps + OS you said?
Make your list of all the websites you're gonna have to go to to get it all updated. How long's that gonna take?
Yup, I did it in one place.
Linux is easier.