Well I am a newby, I had no idea what the heck was going on. I think I have really screwed my system because of lack of communication and my ignorance. If the system depends on a server that is so vulnerable maybe I need another system.
I wouldn't call the servers "so vulnerable" This was a freak occurrence... one time thing due to events well beyond openSUSE/Novell's control. There was a news item on the opensuse.org homepage that explained exactly what was going - even some photos of the power company working at repairing the 20kV lines leading into the openSUSE offices. There were regular updates on the news entry as well. A lot of people were scrambling overnight, and on their day off to get things back up and running again. There was no way to put out another email to the mailing list since the listserver was also affected. The only communication channel that was still open was the website, and Andreas had a posting there right away to let us know what was going on. So.. welcome to openSUSE. A bit of a rocky start for you, but.. this is the first time we've had an outage like this on the repositories in.. well.. ever. And.. thanks to the team that got things up and running again. Despite the grumbling from all of us from time to time, we do really appreciate the work you guys do! C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org