Should security updates 'always' be installed?
- by kmansoor
We are a small shop, no real sysadmin. So developers (Java EE) also try to maintain Ubuntu server 12.0.4.
When I login a terminal and I see messages like:
6 packages can be updated.
6 updates are security updates.
Should all security updates always be installed? can some be ignored?
Should these be acted upon immediately? Or one could wait for 2:00 AM coming Sunday?
Is there a way to know a 'critical' update?
Is there a good sysadmin for dummies resource I should be reading?