One of the things I am going to really miss about my Linux laptop was the software patching system. Now I have used many flavors of Linux. Ubuntu has been my main course for the last couple of years, but I have much experience with RedHat/Fedora, and even Slackware if you want to dive into the wayback machine. The last several iterations have all had a commonality that there was a tool that automatically gathered data on what patches were available, simmilar to (gasp!) Windows Update. This doesnt seem to be the case in OS X. I have to manually go and see if there are patches available. That is kind of disapointing. I actually have to go and put effort into seeing if there are any patches available.
Why doesn't Apple simply have the OS check every so many times a day for updates? Is this a concious decision? Who knows. I can see that I will have to be vigilant in keeping up with the patches. I did finally break down and get the 600+ MB worth of updates I needed immediately after first boot up, but it took me almost a week.
***Correction*** The update software in OSX X just prompted me to download some patches. The timing of the prompting for applying updates is seemingly more aggressive in Linux/Ubuntu's updater.
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