John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 12:32 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > ... > We Also have to remember the countries want control over when the boxes > update. At least that was the impression I got at the country meetings. > This is a concern, no? In cases of regime change and the like, can a particular user opt out of the upgrades somehow? Although it's a good idea to have the laptops automatically update themselves by default I'm somewhat concerned if a new regime coming in can disable all of the laptops in the country, or force them to install something that the users themselves don't want.
This concern is one of the reasons I want to allow for overlay file systems for the Core Operating System images, the install may be downloaded and automatically installed, but if it does something nasty the child can disable that overlay and potentially decide to move to a different update source (e.g. change countries) using the security configuration UI mechanism (or whatever). On a less tin-foil-hat note, I would be most comfortable if all system updates were notifying the user and allowing them (again, likely part of the security UI) to temporarily delay an update. 30 kids in the middle of a video-capture-and-editing activity for the school play that's taxing their systems and their network to the limit are going to be a little upset if the board of education decides that's the moment to start a whole-system update. Just a thought, Mike -- ________________________________________________ Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
