Automatic update

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Mon Feb 13 18:32:56 UTC 2006


Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> One of the original reasons that I chose Redhat/Fedora was the ability
> to learn easily that an update was available and/or necessary and get
> that update installed.  I liked the panel applet notification but that

Are you interested in automatic /updates/ or automatic /notification/?
They are different things. IMO, automatic updates are not a good idea.

I also liked the little up2date icon use, but have since switched
to yum (now that FC2 is Legacy). I now get e-mail informing me of
updates. Not quite as nice as the little icon, but certainly usable.

Mike
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