On Monday 10 March 2008, Benji Weber wrote:
On 10/03/2008, Martin Schlander
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?
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