On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:11:35PM +0100, 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. Use debian stable (currently 'lenny'). The philosophy behind stable releases of debian is release updates for packages only if you have security bugs. That way when you run 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' you download and install only those already _installed_ packages which got security bugs. Regards Przemyslaw Bak (przemol) -- http://przemol.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Audi kilka tysiecy zlotych taniej? Przebieraj wsrod tysiecy ogloszen! Sprawdz: http://link.interia.pl/f216f