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Carrez: The real problem with Linux distros

Carrez: The real problem with Linux distros

Posted Sep 24, 2010 23:18 UTC (Fri) by sjlyall (subscriber, #4151)
In reply to: Carrez: The real problem with Linux distros by cesarb
Parent article: Carrez: The real problem with Java in Linux distros

It's not just "security" . Had a problem a few years ago when the government changed the daylight savings dates. Some Java apps embedded their own version of the timezone database so didn't get updated.

Considering that a new version of the timezone database comes out every few weeks I hope this isn't as bad any more.


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