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linux aint msft windows? thats why i dont need timely updates? this logic doesnt make sense to my security needs. silly firefox devcycles alone make it neccessary to upgrade very frequently the mozilla packagery alone, and even before their high paced release cycles, their countless security bugs and their more inexcusable chemspill re-releases are just a simple example. not even to speak about all the security risks in other softwares. maybe you are taking software updates and risks too lightly. just because you think microsoft is a security mess, doesnt mean linux is heaven. quite the contrary. you cant let especially noob users on virgin linux installations without patches, thats just insane. so it apparently boils down to to give a single password to both root and this one normal user i create and set everything to automatic (updates). the user will probably be still be bothered with password popups, and saving a password in all these password dialogboxes doesnt sound right either in terms of security, once there will be exploits and other problems on these un*x platforms as well. normal un*x users dont operate as root and are very clearly and thoroughly separated from the root account and all its possibilities. so when using the same passwords everywhere and saving passwords creates a situation of complete insecurity i think.
1. Don't be obsessively concerned about updates. This isn't MS-Windows. If you are running the firewall then Linux, ipso facto, overcomes the greatest problem home MS-Windows has, that a regular user has admin power and so can be conned into installing malware.
i am still undecided if i stick with this already installed 11.4 or if i should give 12.1 a try, but the many bugreports and even only looking at the mostannoyingbugs of it gives me the creeps. it seems that just about each and every new (open)suse release is ridded with crazy bugs and showstoppers and just almost noone seems to care and things still get released into the wild as final releases. what i have never liked about opensuse is that there are never revisions of the released products, once very nasty bugs are fixed, the debian folks release r1, r2 and so forth, but the opensuse isos and repositories never get packaged and bundled into a fixed and updated revision. i am thinking about the many mdraid/dmraid/kernel and other bugs and real showstoppers of the past opensuse releases of which many of these bugs landed on the mostannoying area but never ever was a re-release or a revision-release considered. i also read about suggestions and attempts to make the suse release cycle into considering these re-releases with most important fixes and many people with bootloader, kernel and these disk and upgrade scenario bugs asked for better and more thorough testing. for example i also have never experienced a flawless opensuse release with the even most simple basic configuration in terms of upgradeability. i am always trying to install a release for example 11.4 clean when a new release appears, for example this 12.1 and try a simply for example dvd-media mased upgrade procedure. single useraccount, single e.g. sata disk, single partition, nothing special at all. i have never come across a clean and flawless upgrade result. opensuse always fails on a very basic and easy upgrade scenario. its clear to me that the opensuse people dont consider upgrades important enough. everybody thinks that the world starts just about new after every release. its a shame. i remember when suse had trouble upgrading when you had separate partitions for var or logs, when there were complete showstoppers when you had some -pae or non-pae kernel or so and upgraded to the next suse release it would just die, then the zypper disaster one release ago or such stuff i have read about, then people unable to create and keep simple raid1(mirror) configs with two simple physical disks and mirroring every partition from one disk to the other and upgrading those systems, opensuse still cant handle these things to this date if i am up to date with all those endless bug listings on their bugzilla. . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org