Why PCs Are Fragile and What We Can Do About It: A Study of Windows Registry Problems
DSN '04 Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
A Process Model and Typology for Software Product Updaters
CSMR '05 Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
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Staged deployment in mirage, an integrated software upgrade testing and distribution system
Proceedings of twenty-first ACM SIGOPS symposium on Operating systems principles
Automatic Patch-Based Exploit Generation is Possible: Techniques and Implications
SP '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
NixOS: a purely functional Linux distribution
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Package upgrades in FOSS distributions: details and challenges
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Resilient software mirroring with untrusted third parties
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
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Year after year, the frequency of updated releases of software continues to increase. Without an automated install process, the result is either that a system installs software with known defects and/or vulnerabilities, or systems require increased manual labor to maintain up-to-date software installations. Linux packages, in conjunction with repositories, fill this need for automation to reduce both undesirable situations. This model can be modified to a generic operating system environment, such as Windows, which currently lacks the capability to update arbitrary software applications. Our application, Appupdater, demonstrates this concept of detecting, downloading, and installing upgrades automatically. This provides a completely automated upgrade cycle.