[Info-vax] Patching, was: Re: VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Scott Dorsey]

Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2021-09-15, <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yep, one of the challenges Windows admins (and to a bit lesser extent,
>> Linux) have is just the sheer volume of monthly patches (security and
>> functionality).
>>
>> This is not OS religion - simply reality.

The thing about Linux is that you can strip the system down because it is
modular... and the more you strip out, the fewer patches you need.  You can
get to the point where you just need an occasional kernel patch if your
application is self-contained.

>How many patches per month would VMS see if it was probed with the same
>level of intensity that other operating systems are probed with and if
>it had the same wide range of software that those other operating systems
>have ?

Probably quite a few, but I suspect less than you'd expect because there is
much less code inside the box.  Code contains bugs... the key to making a 
system less buggy is to make it smaller and more straightforward.
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