[205g0]

OT: Just a second ago, I was setting up unattended-upgrades for security updates for a new Ubuntu box and I am once again puzzled why the largest Linux distribution has such an underwhelming UX for an crucial feature. Long story short, I welcome any new contender in the OS space.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

> I am once again puzzled why the largest Linux distribution has such an underwhelming UX for an crucial feature

Are we talking about Ubuntu, or Android? Because honestly in either case... what would you improve? Ubuntu has updates rolled into GNOME's package management frontend and it's seemed to work well, and Android has decent UX around updates (especially with A/B system partitions) although of course it suffers from vendors not actually releasing updates.

[dhodell]

Maybe our section on packages will be of interest to you: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/packages/package

[e12e]

What's underwhelming about?:

  sudo apt install unattended-upgrades

[205g0]

You have to touch two config files. One is easy but the other one needs a bit of googling, nothing major but yeah why at all this? Auto-updating security updates should be the default if you run servers in the wild.

[e12e]

> You have to touch two config files.

Not if you just want automatic security updates? The package is part of the server task, and defaults to installing security updates. It does not install other updates, and does not automatically reboot.

> Auto-updating security updates should be the default if you run servers in the wild.

It pretty much is (for Ubuntu server)?

[swiley]

OT indeed, this is about a kernel and you're asking for a userspace feature.

Also, there are large number of "contenders" in the Linux based OS space which may have the UX you want, and if there isn't one this sort of thing tends to be pretty easy to tweak and suggest changes for (unlike in most of Google's OSes.)