[CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

John Kennedy
Tue, 19 May 2009 22:33:43 -0000

On Tuesday 19 May 2009 16:11:35 Anne Wilson wrote:
> I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a
recently-
> widowed man.  His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking,
> basically - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels
> very insecure.
>
> It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to
> keep it securely patched.  I'm wondering if it's possible to
auto-install
> security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications
> perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough.
>
> Maybe this could be done with a script run under cron.daily, so that
> anacron picks it up?
>
> I'd be glad of any advice.
>
> Anne

As much as I like CentOS, I tend to agree with the other posts. I don't
think
it is the right distro for non techies.
I set up my in-laws with Linux Mint (running KDE, of course) and they could
even handle installing the codecs and other non OSS stuff. Mint is a nice
distro based on Ubuntu.
John