those updates in linux include all the installed applications you dumbell,
not only the OS...

when you update XP you are updating ONLY the OS, and not all the
applications installed






"forty-nine" <49@linux.p-u> wrote in message news:fk773a$g9k$1@aioe.org...[color=blue]
> "Leythos" <void@nowhere.lan> wrote in message
> news:MPG.21d0e5a6e0b82df198990c@adfree.Usenet.com...[color=green]
>> In article <uDV0Q8QQIHA.5988@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, kevpan158
>> @nospam.hotmail.com says...[color=darkred]
>>> For A Mental Retard Like Yourself, Just FYI, You Would Be Perfect For
>>> Ubuntu. Just FYI.[/color]
>>
>> Installed Ubuntu 7.10 on a P3/933, took about 1.5 hours, then there were
>> 143 updates, and that's just to the back installed package, no extra's
>> added to it yet.
>>
>> Seems there are new updates weekly too...
>>
>> Strange, just like Windows XP, but XP supports more hardware.
>>
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>> Leythos
>> - Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
>> - Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a
>> drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
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>
> I know ... 7.04 - 240MB of updates.
> Takes less to update original XP to SP2[/color]