On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 08:12:42AM +0200, Erhard Sanio wrote:
Hello,
I realized that in 10.1, I am forced to register at Novell in order to be able to activate Yast Online Update even when I chose the OSS version. This made me abort the installation.
I am SuSE user since 1995, but I absolutely dislike to be blackmailed to disclose any bit of my privacy.
IP addresses (because dynamic) and hostnames (because subject of change) are useless for the spies anyway.
Is there a way to circumvent that annoying attempt on my privacy? Otherwise this means goodbye SuSE. I would regret, but other Linux projects do not try to force me to deliver my secrets to them
- You can restrict the information it sends on your hardware and system to a minimum. - You can just add a update source by hand, registration is not required. <susemirror>/pub/suse/update/10.1 for instance, use as source in Germany: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/update/10.1/ Ciao, Marcus