No? Okay, okay, you're right... Perhaps it's a bit early for that. But what about in a virtual machine?
The Ubuntu Developer Summit isn't until December, but we're already busy working on Jaunty!
With some help from Michael Vogt, update-notifier is now able to publish information about available updates, and required system restarts. It uses update-motd to collect and publish a rich, dynamic Message-of-the-Day dialog.
This new functionality hopes to provide an equivalent to the


The result looks something like:
Linux dustin-desktop 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:06 UTC 2008 x86_64And, when a reboot is required, like this:
The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.
To access official Ubuntu documentation, please visit:
http://help.ubuntu.com/
79 packages can be updated.
0 updates are security updates.
kirkland@t61p:~$
Linux dustin-desktop 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:06 UTC 2008 x86_64
The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.
To access official Ubuntu documentation, please visit:
http://help.ubuntu.com/
0 packages can be updated.
0 updates are security updates.
**** System restart required ****
kirkland@t61p:~$
We still have a few kinks to work out, and a few optimizations coming, but all told, this is good stuff for the Ubuntu Server!
:-Dustin
Very cool! This should be very useful... I'm looking forward to it.
ReplyDeleteReally cool stuff Dustin. Nice to see server-team hard working. Anyone trying to backpoert it to 8.04/8.10?
ReplyDeletewow, this is awesome! will it be in ubuntu desktop as well?
ReplyDeletePeter-
ReplyDeleteThis will be on Jaunty desktop as well.
Zen-
This code probably won't be backported to 8.04/8.10, unfortunately... I'll see if I can simplify it somehow to fit within the scope of an SRU, perhaps.
:-Dustin