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Monday, December 4, 2000

MandrakeUpdate == Slick -- 10:44 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

One of the biggest PITAs (in my opinion) about maintaining a Linux system is keeping up-to-date with all the bug fixes and security updates. One of the blessings and banes of open-source development is that software is almost continually being updated. I tried using MandrakeUpdate on my Mandrake 7.2 installation today since I knew there were several security updates I needed to get. It automatically looked at what I had installed and gave a list of packages that needed to be updated. All I had to do was select the ones I wanted, wait for the them to download from a mirror site, and they were automatically installed. Very nice, very easy. Two big thumbs up.

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