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Maintaining Linux

Maintaining Linux

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Maintaining Linux

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- All right, so we've already learned the best practices for updating and patching Windows operating systems. Let's take a look at how to do it in Linux. And with Linux, the update process is slightly different than it would be with Windows because Linux uses this thing called rolling repositories, or rolling repos. And basically what that is is just a series of different trusted sources that host these updates. The problem is they move periodically and you might not be able to download a certain update or update your system until you update your repos. So let's go ahead in here and I'm going to open up our Linux Software Updater, which is our GUI method of actually updating, and we can see it runs, it lets us know that it's grabbing all the lists of stuff from the rolling repos, and then it comes in and actually shows us all the individual things that we have updates for. And as you can see, there's quite a lot. I've got…

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