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Typical Windows User Patches Every 5 Days
CWmike writes "The typical home user running Windows faces the 'unreasonable' task of patching software an average of every five days, security research company Secunia said on Thursday. 'It's completely unreasonable to expect users to master so many different patch mechanisms and spend so much time patching,' said Thomas Kristensen, the company's CSO. The result: Few consumers devote the time and attention necessary to stay atop the patching job, which leaves them open to attack. Secunia says that of the users who ran the company's Personal Software Inspector in the last week of January, half had 66 or more programs from 22 or more different vendors on their machines. ... Secunia has published a white paper (PDF) that details its findings."
It has been. There has been a sharp increase in the number of patches since 9.10 was released.
Some have argued that it's because the community is growing, and more bugs are being found, and then being fixed.
Frankly, I think that's a load of bunk! I suspect the real situation is that the quality of Ubuntu releases has been dropping off significantly over the past few releases. We're seeing a lot more utter shit allowed in than we would have seen in the past, with less testing and hence the drop in quality.
This last release of Ubuntu almost felt as cocked-up and fecal-like as Fedora. You know your Linux distribution has hit rock bottom when Fedora begins to look stable compared to it.