On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Joss Winn wrote:
Indeed, the SuSE YAST2 online update is as easy as it gets. You click on the update button, it tells you what updates are available and which of those it recommends for your system, you decide what you think you need and then click on a button for it to download and install. You can automate the whole procedure as much or as little as you like.
Sorry to be pedantic but the best distribution IMHO for security updates does have to be Debian (I am a hardcore Debian fan though :-)), if you go here http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe and sign up for Debian Security Announce and add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
you will get an email whenever a new package has been released to fix a security problem and all you will have to type (as root) is
apt-get update apt-get upgrade
and it will automatically download updated packages and install them for you.
Of course this only works on stable releases of Debian (which can be a little lacking in latest features of other distros) but is apt-get has to be one of the best reasons for taking the time to install and configure Debian when just starting out.
Although I must say I havn't had any experience of SuSE since 6.2 so maybe there tool is easier to use etc.
Adam