On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 05:13:43PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > > > Educating users also involves raising awareness that they *have* to keep > > their system up-to-date with security patches both to prevent local and > > remote exploits. The fact that KDE (or Xfce) does not have an equivalent to > > the update-manager is IMHO, worrisome, as users of that Desktop environment > > might not be as aware of this need as users of GNOME. > > I agree with the first half of that statement, but I fail to grasp why > kde users (including, say Linus T.) should be less aware of security > than gnome users. Are you just trying to start a flame? I didn't say what you put here and do not have any intention to start a flamware. I'm just saying that Debian KDE users with no update-notifier *might* not be *as* aware of available security updates as users of GNOME with it. That's it. (Notice the use of 'might' in both of my statements) > Maybe the lack of an update-manager for kde just reflects the fact that > kde users are more security aware and don't need as much automatic > nagging. (I am not claiming that this is the case, I am just claiming > that it is just as legitimate to claim the opposite of what you have > been claiming. ) Actually, I've just found that there is actually an update-notifier for KDE, it's provided by adept (a package management interface similar to synaptic). Try installing adept-notifier. Regards Javier
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