Comments on: Updates: the software after-party

By: perspx

perspx — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:03:03 +0000

Yeah. I think the best updates are the one that don’t cause the entire system to be restarted. Although of course sometimes you NEED to restart the system, it should be a little more transparent – ie when you next restart the system it will update the required components, but before then you can still use the application as normal.

By: rx512

rx512 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:58:48 +0000

Or a kernel update. But that’s kind of obvious.

By: rx512

rx512 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:58:14 +0000

Linux is already miles ahead of Windows in terms of automatic updating and even just general updating. The only time you need to reboot it is after a major distribution update or core driver update. 7 is slightly better than Vista/XP but the restart dialog is still as annoying than ever. Furthermore, I’ve known XP to give an unstoppable (except by killing wuauserv) restart countdown… >_<