Morning Upgrade Breakage
For a pretty long time I've been mildly annoyed at the constant "New updates available" notification bubble that pops more or less every day (Ubuntu Edgy Eft). Yes, it's good that the vendor is actively trying to make my desktop as secure as possible, by quickly providing fixes for recent vulnerabilities, and it gives me as a user confidence that Ubuntu is taking security seriously. The problem is when they do it too often, the effect can be the completely opposite:
If I every day gets informed that my system is not secure, and that I need to upgrade X packages, I start loosing faith in the system. Why should I update today? It will be unsecure tomorrow anyway. Not to mention the fact that the constant nagging is annoying as hell.
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To be fair to Canonical
Not just Ubuntu GNU/Linux does this type of thing. Here's a recent story from a prominent blogger:
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| My previous post on Windows Update disabling FireFox attracted over
| 10k readers and I guess it generated enough noise that Microsoft
| approached me for specifics. Kudos to MS for that! Clearly the
| issue wasn't very widespread, but several users reported experiencing
| it on this reddit thread.
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| [...]
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| My new Microsoft Policy: whatever dies, dies. I won't bother fixing
| it, I will let MS Bugware slowly die, and move on to better
| alternatives. Online, whenever possible.
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http://www.zoliblog.com/blog/_archives/2007/3/18/2816581.html