On Sep 27, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2007-09-24 10:01:12, schrieb David Brodbeck:
Same basic problem, I think. To apply security patches you have to
recompile. To recompile, you have to use GCC, which is a resource
hog. You'd get old and die waiting for "make world" to finish on a
machine with 64 megs of RAM.
One solution, if there are faster machines on the LAN, might be to
use distcc. But then you're not "really" stand-alone.
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But you know, that you can get NetBSD as binary distribution like
Debian?
Yes, I do. But last I knew they only distributed security patches
(between distribution releases) as source code, so if you want the
latest fixes you have to compile from source. It's possible this
changed -- I still run FreeBSD, but I haven't looked at NetBSD lately.
On the plus side, security fixes to the base system are fairly
uncommon in *BSD -- since FreeBSD 6.2 was released in January, there
have only been six of them, for example.
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