Upgrade notification applet (Re: new Ubuntu user)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:37:42PM -0600, Marc Williams wrote:

> I decided to try out Ubuntu after having run Red Hat and Fedora for 
> several years.  So far, so good.  Mostly.  But I have some questions 
> that I hope aren't too stupid for this list.  I'll just do one at a time.
> 
> In RH-FC there is a RHN Notify icon that sits in the system tray to 
> notify when package updates become available.  Does Ubuntu have such a 
> thing?

Yes, it's called Upgrade Notifier, and is being developed by Michael Vogt
for the Hoary release.

https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/PackageManagement

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 - mdz