-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: cagsm Gesendet: Di. 27.09.2016 11:30 is it now safe or advised to add the update repo when using leap 42.2 beta2 and onwards?

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how about the other nify security problems we see daily in the software world? openssl and such comes to my mind?

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I am a bit puzzled why you post this (what I would feel belong to "general knowledge of software" and therefore to opensuse@opensuse.org) here in the developers forum. To get you an answer on the "security problem": This is beta software. This warning is displayed several time during install to you. Wikipedia states about betasoftware: Beta phase generally begins when the software is feature complete but likely to contain a number of known or unknown bugs. Software in the beta phase will generally have many more bugs in it than completed software, as well as speed/performance issues and may still cause crashes or data loss. The focus of beta testing is reducing impacts to users, often incorporating usability testing. Unknown bugs are intrinsically unsafe and may lead to security problems and / or data loss. This is fairly easy to understand. You have a productive system that serves to you as a bread-giver in you daily activity: you do not use beta software. You have security requirements that come down to: be always patched and have save practice ... you do not use beta software. You are somebody who decides to contribute to others and want to find security and other bugs and report them, while running either a virtualized system without vital data or the full OS on a spare computer where you just try out whether migration of you old system "would" work and if your usual requirements for safe work are met: then you do(!) use and install a beta version. If you do not know how to file a bug report and/or you do not have a spare system I would really advice (IMO) NOT to use any beta. And to wait up to 6 month after release to get the most stable experience. There is a world of difference between running beta and stable. So also: if you use beta, even for testing, you always, even more than usual, make a backup(!) of ALL your data BEFORE you start. And I really think you should post these kind of questions to opensuse@opensuse.org where they seem fitting. YMMV, of course. --- Die Bundesliga hat begonnen! Alle Tore, alle Ergebnisse, alle News: Pocket Liga jetzt im https://app.adjust.com/dpynzd oder https://app.adjust.com/dpynzd herunterladen - kostenlos! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org