<p dir="ltr">Home: patch early and often except for web server. That gets treated as work</p>
<p dir="ltr">Work: patch security issues ASAP. Often that requires some testing if the update includes lots of bug fixes as well. Bug patching is done only if bug is a local issue. All new projects are started with all available patches installed. New project on existing machine with existing projects is grounds for full patch cycle and local application bug fixing due to patching.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Feature patches are mostly nonexistent for centos but prevalent for fedora. Lifecycle of centos major release is similar to hardware lifecycle. I do use fedora for some desktop use (laptops in paticular) and have fedora as the basis for my hpc stack. The kernel changes in fedora have generally benefited my users.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 11, 2015 3:40 PM, "DJ-Pfulio" <<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">How often do you patch?<br>
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When do you NOT patch? Why not?<br>
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Please differentiate between business and home choices.<br>
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