We’ve kind of want to take a quick look at the differences between Windows Update which you’re familiar with if you’re on Windows XP for example versus Linux Ubuntu’s Automatic Update features, the application I’ll just bring up right here.
I’ve mentioned this on a previous episode where I mentioned that in your panel you’re going to see a little notification when software pops up, so that with this little arrow with the red arrow that for me the red arrow with the delayed explanation mark, that would that is, so I single click on that and that brings up a window with my current available updates.
So, back in windows XP, we’re getting the same thing where Windows Update tells us that we’re getting some updates here and things are in need of updating, and you can see we’ve got Security updates, Security update, Windows Malicious Software, Windows Internet Explorer 7, so all of what we are seeing there is basically the core Windows is being updated, so they found some security exploits they are fixing them and they are distributing them to the operating system to kind of you know, band aid it and patch up problems with the operating system.
So, does Ubuntu’s Update Manager do the same thing? Yes absolutely, but where things are a lot different is let’s say for example, you go into the local store and you buy a copy of your Microsoft Word Application, you install that into your Windows XP system and then you get your updates and you get your updates, you get your updates, but you are still running that same version of that systems. So, what happens is that if they release a new version of that software. You‘re going to end up having to go back out and buy a new version to soft run once they’ve released the patch. But you’ve seen it happened where you buy a version of software from Microsoft Windows and you don’t get updates for it. You actually have to buy the new version.
In the case of Linux, what’s a lot different here is that when I bring up my Update Manager, you’re going to see here that not only if we got kind of core components like the Linux Headers, Linux Generic Kernel right? These are like the systems off but then on top of that I’ve got Open Office installed, and it’s found that there’s some updates for Open Office. If they bring out a brand new version of Open Office we’re actually going to get the brand new version onto our Ubuntu Linux systems, so whatever program you have installed. If you’ve installed it throughout or Synaptic Package Manager or add/remove, if you’ve done that, you’re going to actually see those things pop up in this list every time they bring out an update.
And when I mentioned last week I kind of got the feeling that I made it sound like you’re going to get a pop up every time that there’s an update for any application, but as you can see what I meant is you actually get a list of all the currently available updates for your system which is really, really clean, really, really simple and you’re always going to be running the latest version of not only your Operating System components but also the latest version of all the applications that are currently installed in your system.
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