[SlugLUG] New Install report

Eric Carter eacarter at greenstorm.net
Mon Sep 18 21:58:47 PDT 2006


Good to hear. :)

EC

Rohan Sheth wrote:
> Ubuntu will only have you reboot on kernel updates.  Recently they have
> had a few kernel updates, they are more rare in the long run.  Usually
> the kernel is only updated for security fixes and actual kernel
> versions are released in new Ubuntu versions not within a release.
> 
> --Rohan
> 
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:16:55 -0700
> Eric Carter <eacarter at greenstorm.net> wrote:
> 
>> I installed Ubuntu a week or so ago and so far everything is going
>> fairly well. I have a few services to setup still (svn and imap among
>> others) and I've got some issues with config files still (korganizer's
>> appointments are all 14 hours early!) but so far it's pretty sweet. I
>> really like all the detailed documentation on Ubuntu. It seems like most
>> things are copy and paste guides and the only issue's I've had so far
>> was getting a few things to run as services or load on startup.
>>
>> One curiosity that I've noted, which has become a question for other
>> Ubuntu users: Friday Ubuntu asked me to reboot my computer to apply a
>> security update. How often does this happen? Is this only for kernel
>> updates? Or do other packages ask for a restart too? I am discontent
>> with the idea of having to restart. :P ( still haven't done it and it's
>> monday already).
>>
>>
>> EC
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