Windows Vista to 'freeze dry' PCs before patching

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Windows, Linux, MacOSX as every other OS in the world, from time to time require some fixes. I use Linux as my primary OS and while I'm quite happy I rekon the system is constantly evolving and as such there's got to be a way to merge these changes into the system. Ture, like many other UNIX systems, when you patch an application, you don't have to bring the whole system down to apply said fix, but when you apply a new kernel, you will have to reboot, at least until the kexec technology matures enough which will allow you to shutdown a currently running kernel and boot another without the need of a full reboot, but this will take time to mature.

We won't need to patch our applications and systems the moment human beings be able to produce perfect code, which by no means is possible at the moment. Holes are there for a number of reasons, be it problems with a specific operation which requires to leave these holes ot to be re-thought the way to work around the problem (either paradigm shift or change of algorithm), because of distractions where a coder or group of coders miss a spot in the code where a function could be overloaded or whatever, or to meet a dead line, time to debug and go through the thousands and thousands of lines of code evaluating and validating it usually takes quite a bit of time. Some companies and individuals prefer to release their products and take the time at a later stage to go through the code and correct it where it may be faulty.

Even with all the technology available today to debug programs, it is quite difficult to spot all bugs in a program at any given time, except for those which are very obvious and would stop the program from working immediately... Sadly the lesser bugs are quite slippery and they get away (not for long). Linux and pretty much any other *NIX system is not excent. In fact along the Linux history, there has been some great mistakes made, which were corrected, but which should have never had to be left out of the development farm.

Posted by: thetargos   Posted on: 09/02/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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