2008/12/5 lanas <lanas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:56:00 -0500, > Robert Locke <lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote : > >> This morning after booting and logging in, a little bubble opened in >> the lower right hand corner that said some updates were complete. I >> had not requested any updates. Previous updates had all been done by >> me typing "yum update" in a gnome-terminal. > > OK. Microsoft gave $500 millions to Novell for SuSE. How much did > they gave to Red Hat, do I ask cynically ? > > Or worse, is this the result of Windows programmers moving to work on > Linux bringing along their great ideas ? > > If it goes on like that in 3 years from now, major Linux distros will > have too many similarities with Windows, and will share the Windows > problems of today. All that's left is to remove that darn root account > or better (!), have users always with root privileges. > > But since Linux is what it is, there'll be hope in 'rebel', rock-solid > alternative distros that do not push by default unwanted system > behaviours to users and stick to proven basics. And that doesn't > exclude compiz. > > I'm suprised this packagekit-whatever default behaviour went into > production w/o anyone raising a red light. Even if it's a bug. truly > surprising. > > And how does it update the system exactly w/o root account ? Or does > this GUI thing runs always as root with access to both the system and > the internet w/o users knowing it ? > > My rant. > > Cheers. These people need to here this: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-December/msg00431.html ...dex -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
