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On 04/05/12 13:53, Kevin Johnson wrote:
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<td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">Hi all.<br>
Just curious as to how often everyone updates? Right now,
everything is working well so I see no need to update
anything. But I am concerned about security. My systems
are behind a modem with the firewall enabled, and a router
that also has a fire wall. Besides that, its linux. So
do you update regularly or what?<br>
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I think my myth box has been going for about 5-6 years now without a
clean reinstall, plus a year previous to that of knoppmyth. On
mythbuntu these days (was originally neat ubuntu, eventually
switched apt to mythbuntu repos, update that way ever since). <br>
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It's had incremental hardware updates along the way, maybe 3 mobos
in its life.<br>
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It's only had system wide software updates about once a year.<br>
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Doing the software updates that rarely means I'm almost guaranteed
to get something broken when I do it, and spend the next couple of
weeks trying to make it all run stable again. I keep thinking more
regular updates would assist in keeping it running smoothly without
a big break, but like you said, when it's running smoothly you just
don't want to touch it (especially when my significant other is
using it most evenings!)<br>
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Andrew<br>
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