Hi all,
Do apps that are installed via Puppy Package Manager ever receive security updates/patches? If so, how? I just want to understand this better.
Thanks in advance.
Security updates to apps?
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edit: It sounds like you might like DebianDog. Here's a comment rufwoof made about it
rufwoof wrote:I run DebianDog Jessie (Openbox) http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 903#847903 and hadn't run a update for a week or two. After just running it looks like quite a few updates have occurred recently, some of which might be fixes for the lzh/lha ???
That's one of the main reasons I like DD - Debian seem to keep right on top of fixes and also stick to stable versions of programs.
Toni and Fred do a great job of puppy'fying Debian (I frugal boot (Porteus style)). Best of both worlds
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Re: Security updates to apps?
Hello harrisnyc.harrisnyc wrote:Hi all,
Do apps that are installed via Puppy Package Manager ever receive security updates/patches? If so, how? I just want to understand this better.
Thanks in advance.
Sorry I missed your post last week. Please accept my apologies.
Puppy does not update itself. For that, you'd need a "rolling-release" type of distro,
like Arch or OpenMandriva.
Generally speaking, official Puppies simply follow the updates offered by their
"feeding" distro. The philosophy being that it's enough that a new Puppy is
published +/- every 6 months, and that this new Puppy version normally
incorporates updates.
If you want the most recent, bleeding-edge, stuff for your Puppy, you have to
compile it yourself or stay tuned to this forum for people who do. (E.g. forum
members OscarTalks, don570, myself and many others.)
A last note: Puppy-specific utilities, such as PMusic, PFind, Pmenu, etc., (by
forum members zigbert and radky, among others) are constantly being updated by
their developers.
I hope this helps.
BFN.
musher0
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