[Newbie] ubuntu's update-manager???

[Adriano Varoli Piazza]

2006/5/24, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>:
> On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 09:12 -0700, David Armour wrote:
> > ubuntu's update-manager, a feature that locates it midway between XP and
> > BSD/other linux OSs in terms of user-friendly convenience
>
> I have to disagree here. Windows XP is still stuck in the dark ages in
> this regard and only updates Windows itself. All other applications
> implement their own (often weird) ways and have to be updated
> individually.

This is changing lately, with the introduction of Microsoft Update,
which updates with microsoft software and some? third party apps and
drivers. Still, the state of updates on Linux is far better, apart
from binary incremental updates (binary patches) which are only
recently being implemented on open source software with delta-rpm and
"diff binary packages" I don't recall the name of in Debian.


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