[Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?

[Anne Wilson]

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On 08/02/12 15:40, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 12:20 my mailbox was graced by a message 
> from Anne Wilson who wrote:
>> I do not want to have to give the root password to members of my 
>> family that  are, frankly, clueless on tech-matters.  At the
>> same time, I do want them to apply at least security updates.
>> Being able to accept updates from a trusted source (direct from
>> Mageia) with only their user password is the safest their systems
>> can have.
> 
> So which is the lesser of the two evils: hosing the system with an 
> update, or not applying the update as soon as it becomes available 
> ?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ron.

In fairness, of the 10+ years I've been running Linux, Mandrake once
killed X on a Friday afternoon, so we had to wait until Monday for the
fix, and my CentOS system was thoroughly hosed, this time not just X
or KDE, but deep down in the system to the point where it couldn't
mount partitions.

I update my system almost daily, so I estimate I've updated 3500 times
plus a good many more for second boxes/laptops or whatever.  What
proportion of failure is that? If you ignore my second system updates,
it says there is a 0.00057142857% chance of my system being hosed.
Since that's an overstatement (second boxes etc.) :-)  I think I'll
take that chance.

Anne

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