2009/4/5 Remco <remc...@gmail.com> > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <maco...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > There's already an option in System -> Administration -> Software sources > to > > have updates installed automatically. There's also cron (the reason my > mom's > > computer gets updates at all). > > Are there any problems with enabling automatic updates by default? > Most users don't care about updates to the point that they never > install them. And even if they would open the update manager, they > would more likely just install all updates than select the updates > they want. Hell, that's the way I work! How many people actually > benefit from any interaction with the update manager? > > The way Microsoft does it, is that it asks (enabled by default) to > install updates on shutdown. I don't know how that would be better > than completely automatic updates. > > Remco >
I'm inclined to think automatic updates would be a more fitting default for Ubuntu as well. Evan
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