Acerca de los parches y las correciones

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Cruft

In hacker jargon, cruft refers to extraneous or low-quality things in general, 
or software code in particular. The quality of being like cruft is cruftyness or 
cruftiness, which could either refer to something that looks old or decrepit, or 
a unit of measurement of how old and decrepit something is.

Specifically, 'cruft' can mean redundant, old, or improperly written code which 
needs to be fixed, but tends to stick around. Large software projects invariably 
accumulate cruft. The concept can be compared to Philip K. Dick's idea of 
kipple. Cruft is sometimes said to be the software equivalent of dust bunnies.

Due to the lack of a precise definition, cruft has also been used in many 
different contexts to describe code. For example, the FreeBSD handbook refers to 
stale object code as cruft, which simply implies the code has not been 
recompiled following an edit. This can cause the BSD-equivalent of DLL hell.

Cruft may also refer to useless junk or excess materials (including obsolete 
computer hardware) that build up over time and have no value, including things 
collected from dumpsters, so dumpster diving is also called "crufting", and 
things collected from dumpsters are called crufted.

In MIT slang, "cruft" has also come to refer to people who spend a lot of time 
at MIT even though they are no longer students there.

In web design, "cruft" refers to text in the URL that reflects unimportant 
implementation details of the web site, and is not meaningful for identifying 
the page. File extensions such as .php, .html, and .asp are examples of URL 
cruft. Some web designers promote using cruft-free URLs.
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Etymology

Although the origins of this term are uncertain, it is suggested that the term 
is derived from Harvard's Cruft Hall, which was the Harvard Physics Department's 
radar lab during World War II. As late as the early 1990s, unused technical 
equipment could be seen stacked in front of Cruft Hall's windows. This image of 
"undiscarded technical clutter" quickly migrated from hardware to software, from 
which it was even more mind-bogglingly difficult to remove. The word "cruft" may 
also be evocative of the terms "crust" and "fluff", both of which may carry 
connotations of content that is at once extraneous, superfluous, inflexible, or 
superannuated. The proposed acronym "Commodity Residue Undergoing Fanciful 
Transit" is surely retroactive and a backronym.

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Josué Alcalde González wrote:
> El mar, 14-02-2006 a las 05:24 -0500, Ricardo López escribió:
>> En windows, cuando se le aplica el Sp2 hay que sacrificar mas de una
>> Gb de espacio. Hasta ahora, con todos los errores que haya podido
>> tener algun programa libre, nunca he tenido que sacrificar tanto. Pero
>> tampoco he visto que se utilizen parches, sino que se baja otra vez el
>> respectivo paquete. Debido a eso, creé esta teoria: 
>>
>> Cuando Linux se actualiza no utiliza parches que suelen volver
>> obsoleto al sistema, imagina cada parche como una de las curitas que
>> utilizamos para tapar nuestras heridas. Ahora imagina que tu cuerpo
>> tiene encima su propio peso en curitas que lo cubres, ¿Cómo
>> caminarías? Eso que sentiste le sucede a un sistema al que le has
>> aplicado parches. En Linux no, porque cuando actualizas no bajas
>> parches sino el paquete en si.
>>
>> ¿Hasta que punto es valida?
> 
> Me parece bastante incorrecta. Sobre todo, porque aunque el sistema apt
> haga que te bajes todo el sistema, por detrás, muchas veces esos nuevos
> paquetes son recompilaciones con nuevos parches.
> En windows, será similar, ellos aplicarán sus parches y distribuirán
> sustituyendo las librerías viejas.
> La diferencia, las curitas de windows suelen cauterizar solo los
> problemas más grandes, y a veces, la cagan, y las curitas de linux
> suelen coser bien las heridas, las grandes y las pequeñas, sin dejar
> cicatriz.
> Además, las urgencias de windwows funcionan bastante peor que las de
> linux.
> 
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>> Andrew
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