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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?</H1>
<B>Anne Wilson</B>
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On 08/02/12 15:40, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
><i> On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 12:20 my mailbox was graced by a message
</I>><i> from Anne Wilson who wrote:
</I>>><i> I do not want to have to give the root password to members of my
</I>>><i> family that are, frankly, clueless on tech-matters. At the
</I>>><i> same time, I do want them to apply at least security updates.
</I>>><i> Being able to accept updates from a trusted source (direct from
</I>>><i> Mageia) with only their user password is the safest their systems
</I>>><i> can have.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> So which is the lesser of the two evils: hosing the system with an
</I>><i> update, or not applying the update as soon as it becomes available
</I>><i> ?
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</I>><i> Cheers,
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</I>><i> Ron.
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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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