As stated earlier, this is done with the help of the Your Fedora system is now up to date.

Granted only two distributions were touched on here, but this should illustrate how easily a Linux installation is updated.

When the Update Manager opens click the Check button to see if there are updates available.

The updates will proceed and you can continue on with  your work.

Now some updates may require either you to log out of your desktop and log back in, or to reboot the machine.

There are is a new tool in development (Ksplice)  that allow even the update of a kernel to not require a reboot.

In the process you might also learn how to install an application or two.

There is one thing to understand about updating Linux: Not every distribution handles this process in the same fashion.

Whether you are using Ubuntu, Open Su SE, Slackware, Fedora, Mandriva, or anything in-between, the above illustrations should help you through updating just about any Linux distribution.

So to make the task of covering this topic less epic, I will cover the Ubuntu and Fedora systems.

I will touch on both the GUI as well as the command line tools for handling system updates.

Also, I would like to apologize for the lateness of this article.

My life has taken many twists and unforeseen paths during the last few months. INTRODUCTION AND EXPECTATIONS So why would you want to mess with the kernel?