Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th May 2009 08:24 UTC
When Google released the first version of its Chrome web browser, many eyebrows were raised over the fact that it updated itself automatically and silently, in the background, without user intervention or even so much as a notice. As it turns out, this has been a brilliant move by Google, as Chrome users are the most likely to have up-to-date installations of their browser, followed at a respectable distance by Firefox users. Safari and Opera trail behind significantly.
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Member since:2006-03-12
Interestingly if as you state you are not interested in new features you can in Ubuntu, and wait for Ubuntu to Upgrade.
System(Menu)-->Software Sources(Menu Item)-->Updates(Tab)-->Automatic Updates(Title)-->Check for Updates(Checkbox:Daily)-->Install security updates without confirmation(Radio Button)
BTW I leave the example above as to why stuff if clearer to do though the command line.
Member since:2007-09-23
Yes, but that's only the security updates. I still get that annoying icon when there's the usual bugfixes. I *only* want to do a manual upgrade when it's time to upgrade to a new release of Ubuntu.
Minor upgrades (bugfixes and security fixes) should be done automatically and without my knowledge.
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2007-09-23
Yeah, I hate that Ubuntu and Firefox can't update themselves quietly. I always have to click stuff and it interrupts my workflow. I don't even read the list of updates in Ubuntu anymore, it's never anything interesting anyway.
The problem gets worse when you get new updates 5 days a week. I have been really close to ignoring the icon and that's bad.
Ubuntu had a great philosophy on their new notification system (the computer should not tell the user what to do, the user should tell the computer what to do). Why not apply that on updates as well?