Quoting Joe Harrington <jh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > No, I don't think any distro enables them by default. But Fedora, > Ubuntu, and RHEL all document and encourage the practice. Red Hat's Best Practices docs do *NOT* recommend auto updates. Of course, only "production level" people tend to follow Best Practices, and not "general users." I have no real problem with general users using auto updates, but I would say not too many "general users" are using Fedora Legacy either. Where do you think Red Hat recommends this at? I'd love to see any references people have. > Remember > that there is a heavy cost to *not* updating, even for a short time, > and the vast majority of users don't do manual updates, whether for > lack of knowledge, time, or motivation. So it's a matter of choosing > the better of two evils, for most people, and hence for the distros. I'll agree to that for "normal users" but not for those running production machines, research clusters, etc. > If you consider that the source of your updates is the same as the > source of your base OS, you should in principle be happy to get any > improvements. Heck, we test each new OS release before we put it in production, why wouldn't we do the same with the updates? > --jh-- -- Eric Rostetter -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
