On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 17:17 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 11:12:37PM +0100, August wrote: > > After having installed Fedora Core 3 the exclamation mark shows that > > there are a number of updates available. Is there a way to find out > > which of these updates are essential (security/core functionality)? I'm > > new to Linux and Fedora so I know nothing about most of the included > > packages. > > It's tricky. You can browse the Fedora Announce archives at > <http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/> to get some idea. > > > > -- > Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> > Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> > Didn't find much info in fedora-announce-list, but thanks anyway. I know that e.g. Windows Update separates essential security updates from other updates. A similar feature in yum or Up2date would be extremely useful. -- August
