System Administration
Tools for the toolbox
Thursday, June 27, 2002
Q: What's the difference between patching IIS and a modified, yet undocumented, copy of Apache?
A: With IIS you cross your fingers and pray that the undocumented changes won't break anything.
But with Apache you spend hours reading through diff(1)s trying to figure out just what was changed, determining whether or not you can replace that feature with an existing module, and whether or not you want to risk moving to Apache 2 instead — all because you won't patch the source you're reading because you're not quite sure it's what built the binary that's running. So eventually, you'll cross your fingers, rebuild the binary, and hope that nothing breaks.
6:00:09 PM #
categories: System Administration
