On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:52:33 -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:07, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED > <m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com> wrote: >> Yes indeed! I do some complicated things, and I can do without the >> wonderful surprises that updates sometimes deliver. I do updates, but >> at times of my choice, and I watch what I get. > > Good luck with the wonderful surprises you will have to deal with if > your machine gets compromised while running unpatched vulnerable > software. > > Filipe No doubt, what you say is a concern. But I have a very tight firewall, and I take few risks. On Linux systems, in my experience, surprise results from updates have been more of a problem. Mike.