In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:11:47PM +0800, Shay Telfer wrote: > Rolling out a distributed update across hundreds of thousands of > machines over the entire planet is not a trivial thing to do. It's > not going to be simultaneous for every user. Nor is that necessarily > desirable.
By the way, Debian Linux seems to do this pretty well. Surely there are millions of Debian machines spread across the entire planet, with multiple hardware architectures to support, too (although I only have experience with a couple). Except when there has been a delay in initiating the release of an update, or where there has been a server failure, I don't really recall Apple-style inconsistencies in the publication or delivery of those updates.
