On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 08:05:44AM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On Sep 11, 2007, at 7:22 , Kai Grossjohann wrote:
And then I believe that you can get an X11-less system by installing the server variant of Ubuntu. Surely they have some mechanisms for updates and the like that do not depend on a desktop environment. But I don't know any details.
Same way Debian does it: apt-get. The other tools, whether CLI, curses, or GUI, are just wrappers around the APT toolkit.
That's not what I meant. What I meant is a replacement for the little tool in Gnome that pops up a window saying that there are updates and asks whether these should be installed. I installed apticron on my Debian system. It is very nice. Every morning about 1/2 h after turning on the laptop, if there are updates, I get an email saying that there are updates, and then I go to a shell and type "sudo aptitude dist-upgrade". So if Debian is nice, Ubuntu will be nicer still :-) Kai