[Info-vax] Variable declarations, was: Re: improving EDT

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/30/2016 9:17 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> True!  For all the people who chuckle at Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday",

Some people are more worried about vendors that do not send
out patches.

> my home Ubuntu system seems to have an update about once a week.
> Some of them are rolling out new functionality which isn't "unstable"
> but as Scott says, you no longer can know for sure exactly what
> features the system supports.

You make some choices. You chose a distro. Ubuntu is not as conservative
as some other distros about taking newer versions of software. And
you have the option of choosing what to install.

>                               Some of them are security updates.
> From a gut feel, there are just as many security issues being fixed
> on Ubuntu as on my Windows boxes.

There are probably way more.

But remember what a Linux update is. It is much more than an update
of the OS. It is an update of all applications distributed via
that particular Linux provider. It is usually thousands of
applications.

So you get updated your browsers, your email clients, your web server,
you database servers, your Java etc..

Arne