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Re:Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows Update on Windows 95... by jodrellblank on Friday July 07, 2023 @03:19PM (#36636983)
"Be very careful connecting to some random server and running code from people you've never met, with whom you have no contract or legal comeback, just because other people are doing it. Also, download Debian!"
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Re:Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows Update on Windows 95... by anthk on Friday July 07, 2023 @05:26PM (#36638544)
You can audit Debian, or rebuild it yourself. Try that with Windows.
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Re:Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows Update on Windows 95... by jodrellblank on Friday July 07, 2023 @06:01PM (#36638858)
Debian had over 324 million lines of code in 2009. How do you propose to audit that in a lifetime?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/111281/exploding-am...

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Re:Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows Update on Windows 95... by anthk on Friday July 07, 2023 @06:19PM (#36639022)
So does Guix, and it has reproducibility features and rollbacks.
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