Re: Centralized patching for Mac OSX?

Jay Bryon wrote:
> I've been using OS X since it came out, and have upgraded through all
> versions to the latest version. In all this time, I've had software
> updates basically just automatically running, with some exceptions for
> things I knew I didn't need. In the past few years that I've been doing
> this I have only twice seen any issues with an update. So unlike the
> windows patch and pray cycle, it's one thing that apple does very well.
> They're not perfect, but they don't drop bombs on you with anything like
> the regularity that MS has. (I also use windows, when I have to, which
> thankfully is a declining trend). So, not to start yet another boring
> platform flame war (please don't bother), but just to let you know what
> my experience has been on both platforms. If you have just a few of
> them, I'd just let them auto update and deal with any rare issues as
> they arise.

The problem is, to "let them auto update" you need to give users
administrative privileges, and the user needs to be expected to interact with
the system and do the right thing when dialog boxes come up. That doesn't
seem like good practice.

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Tom Holub (tom_holub@LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069)
Director of Computing, College of Letters & Science
249 Campbell Hall
<http://LS.berkeley.edu/computing/>
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