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Monday Fun: Automatic Updates in Linux?

I recently set my Kubuntu box to use seamless Microsoft application integration so I can use Windows applications that look like they are natively running in Linux, although they are really running in a hidden virtual machine. Really a very sweet option, similar to running Parallels with Coherence on a Mac.

Imagine my surprise when I saw this popup window appear on my machine out of the blue…

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The Geek has been taking a little vacation this weekend, but he's back and ready to go!

The Geek is the founder of How-To Geek and a geek enthusiast. When he's not coming up with great how-to articles, he's probably writing at his personal blog. This article was written on 07/9/07 and tagged with: The Geek Blog

Comments (2)

  1. Yee Hung

    Hi, I'm running Kubuntu on my laptop, I wonder if you could help me out with installing VirtualBox on it? I read your http://www.howtogeek.com/howto.....-in-linux/ article and would like to do the same for my laptop!

    :)

    Many thanks,

    YH

  2. Steve

    This article is about Edgy. We're all the way to Gutsy now. Is there a similar article for installing into Gutsy? What differences would there be for installing this setup there?


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