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:2006-07-10
There's a nice utility that system administrators have been using for years to automate just such tasks: cron.
Also applicable to ubuntu, is cron-apt.
http://www.builderau.com.au/program/linux/soa/Automatically-update-...
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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.