[plug] Windows Update running on Linux?

[Kai Jones]

hehee, I just finished reading that ! :P

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> From: Richard Meyer [mailto:meyerri at au1.ibm.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 August 2003 11:46 AM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Windows Update running on Linux?
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32385.html
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>   The  BRS  episode  is  being reported in some places, 
> weirdly, as Microsoft foiling Blaster, while 
>   more  imaginative  and hopeful beings have concluded that 
> in an exercise of quite awesome cynicism 
>   The  Beast  simply  moved  the  whole Windows Update 
> shooting match over to a Linux host. Whatever 
>   anybody  says,  that one's sufficiently tempting to run and 
> run, despite the fact that engineering 
>   such  a  switch would likely involve the dismantling of 
> much of the Windows Update infrastructure. 
>   (No really, it is an infrastructure, sort of...)            
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> Regards
> RichardM