A Linux for the totally maintenance free

poma pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 02:53:42 UTC 2014


On 28.10.2014 03:41, jd1008 wrote:
> 
> On 10/27/2014 11:17 AM, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
>> Fedup has been working very well for me over the F18-20 period, and
>> that relative easy of use has kept me running Fedora for the past year
>> and a half.
>>
>> I don't know if this is something on the Fedora roadmap, but a
>> graphical version of Fedup would go a long way toward making many
>> users more comfortable updating their Fedora system.
>>
>> While I'm not crazy about updating every six months, Fedora's practice
>> of continually pushing new kernels into "stable" releases combined
>> with the fact that changes over six months are by nature less radical
>> than those over two (or four or five) years should mean that the
>> chances of an upgrade from version to version succeeding are higher.
>>
>> Especially for new hardware, Fedora works very, very well because you
>> get new kernels and other bits all the time, and you don't necessarily
>> have to wait for the next distro release to start seeing things work
>> better.
>> --
>> Steven Rosenberg
>> http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog
>> http://blogs.dailynews.com/click
>> stevenhrosenberg at gmail.com
>> steven at stevenrosenberg.net
>>
> Thank you Johnny.
> The lady I am trying to help does not even want to have to do
> any updates. She wants it all so atutomatic, that once I configure
> her network, and her desktop icons, she wants the installation to
> maintain itself.
> In a lot of ways, windoze does this for their users, albeit, does not
> protect them from malware.
> 

There are plenty of relatively inexpensive Android tablets with the Linux inside and with fully automatic update.
The perfect opportunity to get rid of maintenance and extend the life span. ;)


poma



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