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Updates by servantsUpdates by servantsPosted Feb 13, 2009 13:23 UTC (Fri) by ber (subscriber, #2142)Parent article: Forcing updates Personally I wish for a service that keeps my system up-to-date. For this I am willing to pay for this to happen in the background. Of course I want this to be configurable and have several vendors to chose from, but I am also offering money. This should include security updates in the background. Note that for the reboot problem, one operating system I know has good solution: It will only install them automatically when the users powers down the system.
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Updates by servants Posted Feb 13, 2009 14:07 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
linux systems offer this today, for free.
for example,in ubuntu you can tell it to download and install updates automatically, if the update requires a reboot an icon will appear on the task bar telling you that updates have been installed that require a reboot.
but this is a configurable item. you can also tell it to download, but not install the updates, to just check if updates are available (and tell you if they are), or to leave it to you to do everything manually.
Updates by servants Posted Feb 20, 2009 5:20 UTC (Fri) by Drone (guest, #56757) [Link]
> Personally I wish for a service that keeps my system up-to-date.
You can already configure Linux packages managers to do so. Even "3rd party" software which is installed from repositories is auto-updated and this is convenient.
But... I still want to retain power to make decision myself when I have to install update and when I'm not. Anything else is a tyranny and in spirit, everyone hates tyrants. Even administrative ones.
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