Location: The Working Centre 58 Queen Street South, Kitchener, ON (plan)
Date: 08 Jun 2016
- All about keeping systems (specifically desktops) up to date:- What tools do you use to keep desktops up to date? (Windows or
Linux, or other)
– What tools do you use for third party updates (Flash? Adobe Reader?
Hateful Java?)
– What tools do you use to monitor and ensure that updates are
happening?
– How do you prevent desktops from filling up with spyware and other
nonsense?
– For Windows people: what are you doing about the Windows 10 upgrade
offer?
Meeting Notes
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### Linux
– Run apt-get manually
– apticron: emails when there are updates
– unattended-upgrades : does security updates automatically
– apt-dater : run updates in parallel
– rootkithunter
### Windows
– Download and ask to install
– WSUS updates
– Download updates and shut down
### Third Party Updates
– ninite.com
– wpkg.org
– chocolatey.org
– wsusoffline.net
### Restoring computers
– DriveVaccine (SUCKS)
– SteadyState (RIP)
– SteadierState
– Faronics DeepFreeze
– Virtual terminal servers (Multipoint server)
– Ubuntu with guest account
+ PlayOnLinux : install Wine easier
– DelProf