Windows XP Update Library On a CD

KrispyKofta sends us to APC Magazine for a writeup on Project Dakota, a one-man effort to provide all Windows XP SP2 updates on one downloadable CD. It's poor man's XP SP3, but even when SP3 is out, the project will continue to offer a CD that will install all patches offline. "When was the last time you installed a fresh copy of Windows XP SP2? The process is still straightforward and relatively quick... but then you think 'I'll just make sure the patches are up to date,' and proceed to stare in horror at the 100+ security updates and critical fixes that Windows Update or WSUS demands you install. And it takes forever. A better option which we've just discovered is the innovative work of Alek Patsouris... it's a self-contained boot CD which contains all the necessary updates to automatically patch a Windows XP SP2 system with all the patches available at the CD's build time."

Comments

Anyone have a torrent?

[erroneus]

C'mon! I know there must be one out there.

:O

[joaommp]

Did it all fit onto a single CD?? :O

Once CD that patches Windows?

[MikeUW]

I think this has already been invented: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

Re:Once CD that patches Windows?

[Anonymous Coward]

... then all you'll need is a patch for Ubuntu and another patch for Gnome.

"The Dakota Project"

[Thanshin]

"The Dakota Project"

"A one-man effort to provide all Windows XP SP2 updates on one downloadable CD."

With:

Bruce Willis as The Architect
Jennifer Lopez as Dakota
Will Smith as Bill Gates

and I'm waiting for this one to get forked...

[mathnerd314]

Project North Dakota and Project South Dakota?

also starring...

[Loibisch]

Also starring:

the Evil Monkey as Steve Ballmer

Re:nLite

[Anonymous Coward]

But does it give you underline-support on /. though?