Getting people into Linux

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On Thursday 04 January 2007 08:16, Anne Wilson wrote:
> And there I want to chip in.  One big bugbear is when
> things that were working get broken by updates.  I think
> that one small change would be immensely helpful here.
>
> Either people don't do updates at all - in which case
> vulnerabilities mount - or they get the lot, and things
> occasionally get broken.  Bear in mind that this class of
> user usually doesn't need the absolute latest and
> greatest - just a reasonably up-to-date version of his
> software.  Surely it would be possible to make a simple
> way to take security fix updates only?  That way you
> could automate the updates for normal use, and they could
> get other updates with the aid of someone more
> knowledgeable if necessary.
>
> Maybe the possibility already exists. If it is, then it
> needs publicising.
>
> Anne
IIRCC Mandrake did things this way.  I don't know if 
Mandriva still does.