Re: When to update?

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Timothy Murphy wrote:
Matthew Miller wrote:

If you are connected to the internet in any way, your machine will get
hacked and you will become part of a botnet serving spam or worse. This is
pretty much an inevitability.

I don't think the danger is that great.

In any case, are you saying this is less likely to occur
if you are running CentOS than Fedora?

On CentOS, security and bug fixes are suppled for many years for each release. Yum update continues to be all you need to do as long as you are happy with the application versions that release supplies.

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  Les Mikesell
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