Vincent Danen kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Keskiviikko 17 Syyskuu 2003 22:07): > On Wed Sep 17, 2003 at 01:52:09PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote: > > >Advisories go out in many forms; I can't help it if you don't pay > > >attention > > >to one of the many: > > > > > >- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >- full-disclosure ml > > >- RSS feed from MandrakeSecure > > >- MandrakeSecure website (on nearly every single page) > > >- MandrakeClub (latest advisory always on the front page) > > > > > >And no, announcements will not be going to this list or any other list > > >other > > >than the announce list. > > > > I appreciate the information and I just subscribed to the announce > > list. However, the same way I didn't know about the > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] list I am sure there are many others that > > are not aware of it. If there is a bug that has a potential of > > becoming a way to break into a computer I feel that all mailing list be > > notified of it to minimize the potential damage. Mandrake may have > > many newbies (I hope you do, you need the business) which are new to > > Linux and may need this extra help. One nice touch SuSE has is a small > > I'm sorry, but I disagree. I don't like the idea of spamming all of the > lists (and while it might not be considered spam, why do it when there is > one list that covers them all?). It's a matter of education. If someone > gets on the newbie or expert list, they've likely visited the website. > There is a link to the MandrakeSecure lists, clearly marked for > security-related lists, on the mandrakelinux.com page where you can > subscribe to the other lists. How difficult is it to subscribe to these > other lists? No, one other list? > > Problem is people don't take security seriously, so they don't sign up for > the list. There isn't much we can do to combat that... in the same way, > they may skip those messages we put on every single list and then what? > > Also, FWIW, if you sign up for MandrakeOnline, you'll get alerts sent to > your inbox. > > > icon in the KDE task bar which changes color when there are updates > > available. Click on it and you get a menu allowing you to check for > > updates, show the last update log or start the update process. very > > nice, clean and can help users keep their system safe. > > I agree, this would be nice and hopefully this is something that can be > done for 9.3 or 10.0.
AFAIK in contribs there is a package started with the aim of doing this: mdk-check-update-* I haven't tested it myself so I can't say if it works... -- Regards Thomas
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