PS: On Linux, you do not have to install updates immediately, or indeed at all if you do not want to. <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=541173">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=541173</a> Is there a way I can somehow blacklist udev so that running apt-get dist-upgrade will upgrade every package except udev? ...