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Centralized updates of third party software

by Steve Granville Feb 8, 2009 5:29PM PST

Ubuntu Linux has automatic updates of third party software through a single program. Third parties upload their software to certain 'software repositories' which detects new versions and upgrades computers accordingly. I suppose this only works in an open source arena because people would be worried that a single large corporation would have too much power over independant software houses.

Steve.

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