On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Felipe Figueiredo <phils...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Remco escreveu: > > 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 > > > Which is precisely why security should be *enforced* by the system. > > > 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. > > > So, are you actually suggesting Ubuntu follows the way behind the *most* > insecure OS in town? > > Don't even get me started on how broken Microsoft is about security. > Ubuntu should definitely *not* follow *their* way of doing things, > security-wise. Just because Windows is considered insecure, doesn't mean it doesn't contain some good ideas. I would like to see at least security updates installed by default, but we would have to find a way to do it without interrupting the users work. Shutdown seems the most obvious place to do this. Just my two cents, Evan
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