-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/02/12 15:40, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote: > On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 12:20 my mailbox was graced by a message > from Anne Wilson who wrote: >> I do not want to have to give the root password to members of my >> family that are, frankly, clueless on tech-matters. At the >> same time, I do want them to apply at least security updates. >> Being able to accept updates from a trusted source (direct from >> Mageia) with only their user password is the safest their systems >> can have. > > So which is the lesser of the two evils: hosing the system with an > update, or not applying the update as soon as it becomes available > ? > > Cheers, > > Ron.
In fairness, of the 10+ years I've been running Linux, Mandrake once killed X on a Friday afternoon, so we had to wait until Monday for the fix, and my CentOS system was thoroughly hosed, this time not just X or KDE, but deep down in the system to the point where it couldn't mount partitions. I update my system almost daily, so I estimate I've updated 3500 times plus a good many more for second boxes/laptops or whatever. What proportion of failure is that? If you ignore my second system updates, it says there is a 0.00057142857% chance of my system being hosed. Since that's an overstatement (second boxes etc.) :-) I think I'll take that chance. Anne - -- Need KDE help? Try http://userbase.kde.org or http://forum.kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8yy44ACgkQj93fyh4cnBeSoQCeM/JSVudO2GkN1uilAnw3f7Ba uAMAn0LeySfhCYlxNQ0PfSWexWXO0fqs =0YN7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
