Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

[peter nikolic <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 10 March 2008, Benji Weber wrote:
> On 10/03/2008, Martin Schlander <suse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> One of the things we've noticed on IRC with 10.2/10.3  is that a
> significant proportion of people skip the connection test

 yes i skip the connection test for one very simple reason it always fails  , 
my machines live on an network using DHCP to obtain there IP addresses  and 
the connection test fails every single time and always has done as far back 
as i have used Suse in every form 
> or 
> registration steps, thinking "I don't want to send any information to
> Novell". So they end up without security updates. Meaning
Should registration be mandatory i think not you are heading down the MS road 
there  you have to remember not everyone has or even wants to be connected to 
the net  so updates become a little pointless 

> - Their systems become insecure.
> - Installation of nvidia/ati/madwifi drivers etc fail once the kernel
> module symbols change
>
> IMO it should be less easy to opt out of having the update repository
> configured. Users simply are not adding it themselves with community
> repositories or even noticing that the tray updater warning them it
> can't check for updates. Perhaps have it added by the installation
> with option to remove it later. Even if no internet access is
> available during installation. It can be separate from the
> registration now that we have the redirector surely?
>
> --
> Benjamin Weber
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