As of now, raspbian packages repo also contains raspberrypi-bootloader package which contains firmware, kernel and kernel modules that rpi-update downloads. The version is not the latest, but files should be fine and stable. Now it shows a 20130207 version, so it's about 3 months old. The package is installed by default and is updated when a new version arrives in repo.

So you basically do not need rpi-update if you don't want the bleeding edge firmware and kernel, just stick with apt-get - it will update kernel, firmware and modules on its own. Actually I cannot find rpi-update on my Pi at all.

raspbian package repo contains raspberrypi-bootloader package which contains firmware, kernel and kernel modules that rpi-update downloads. The version is not the latest, but files should be fine and stable. Now it shows a 20130902 version, so it's about 2 months old. The package is installed by default and is updated when a new version arrives in repo.

So you basically do not need rpi-update if you don't want the bleeding edge firmware and kernel, just stick with apt-get - it will update kernel, firmware and modules on its own. Actually I cannot find rpi-update on my Pi at all.

As of now, raspbian packages repo also contains raspberrypi-bootloader package which contains firmware, kernel and kernel modules that rpi-update downloads. The version is not the latest, but files should be fine and stable. Now it shows a 20130207 version, so it's about 3 months old.

So you basically do not need rpi-update if you don't want the bleeding edge firmware and kernel, just stick with apt-get - it will update kernel, firmware and modules on its own. Actually I cannot find rpi-update on my Pi at all.

As of now, raspbian packages repo also contains raspberrypi-bootloader package which contains firmware, kernel and kernel modules that rpi-update downloads. The version is not the latest, but files should be fine and stable. Now it shows a 20130207 version, so it's about 3 months old. The package is installed by default and is updated when a new version arrives in repo.

So you basically do not need rpi-update if you don't want the bleeding edge firmware and kernel, just stick with apt-get - it will update kernel, firmware and modules on its own. Actually I cannot find rpi-update on my Pi at all.