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A simple, light-weight, desktop-independent update notification applet for the system tray on apt based systems as Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint. A cron job runs in the background and periodically checks for pending software updates, the applet informs you by its color about the state of your system. Through its menu you can view the list of pending updates, check for updates and install these.

...Usually this operation is done while updating your motherboard's BIOS, and the update is permanent. But thanks to the architecture of the linux kernel, we can update it at the last version every time we boot our OS. This is a really fast operation brought to you by microcode.ctl (in Ubuntu), and it permits to avoid waiting for an updated closed-source BIOS to solve bugs; it downloads the last microcode for your Intel or AMD CPU every time you update your system, and it installs it on every OS startup. This little script is designed to give you a way to see what's happening with CPU updates. ...