On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:26, Mark Shuttleworth
<mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The strong likelihood is that you are insecure until you reboot, so we
class it as a warning and make it red.
A kernel update doesn't neccesarilly mean an insecurity, it might just be a stability or driver update. I rarely reboot my system just because the kernel has a update to a driver for a device that's not even on my system. As a result, that indicator is red 99% of the time.
FWIW, my personal anecdote is that I've just learned to ignore red things on the panel, as a result.
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