New update manager!!

[Daniel Carrera]

Hey,

I was just reading the Dapper beta release notes:

<quote>
A new version of the Update Manager application has entered 
breezy-updates which can upgrade your entire system in a few simple steps.
</quote>

You can try it with "update-manager -d" (the -d makes it ignore the fact 
that Dapper is beta).

The gist of it is: Now you can upgrade to Dapper right from the update 
manager! When Dapper comes out the update manager gives you the message 
"New distribution release 'dapper' is available". You click "Upgrade" 
and off it goes.

This is a lot more friendly to non-experts. They no longer need to edit 
sources.list, or go to a TTY to run "apt-get dist-upgrade". Another 
(probable) implication is that *I* don't have to go to a TTY to upgrade 
the system either.

Some of you might recall that my company will give an OEM Ubuntu 
computer to a customer to see how suitable Ubuntu is for OEMs. You might 
recall that I was concerned about how to upgrade him to Dapper when it 
comes out. I expected that I'd have to take his computer for a day and 
ask him for his root password, neither of which I'd like to do. Well, if 
this new update manager works, it would completely solve that problem. 
The customer would be able to upgrade to Dapper himself. This can make a 
non-trivial difference to Linux adoption.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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