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   Verily I say unto thee, that Lawrence D'Oliveiro spake thusly:   
   > In message ,   
   > Justin wrote:   
   >   
   >> Two god damn hours to install SP1?  Good God, Microsoft is honestly   
   >> trying to piss off their customers.   
   >   
   > And you can’t even continue doing work while the update is installing.   
   > Unlike Unix/Linux systems, Windows won’t let you replace files that   
   > are curently in use by a running process. So you have to stop   
   > everything until the update is done.   
   >   
   > Even Linux updates that require a reboot only need downtime for the   
   > actual reboot, not for the installation of the update.   
      
   I just finished a marathon Gentoo update (which on Gentoo means   
   compiled) of some 60-ish packages, including LibreOffice 3.3.1_rc1. If   
   it wasn't for the CPU fan spinning at full revs, I wouldn't have even   
   known it was doing anything.   
      
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