[Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?

Wed Feb 8 20:23:00 CET 2012

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+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
+
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