Le Sat, 6 Dec 2008 03:04:10 +0000, dexter <dex.mbox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > 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 Then, to the question that perhaps a dialog box would improve things, a Fedora guy replied: "What would you want the dialog box to say?" I have a few things in mind, but to write these I would have to leave the range of alphanumeirc keys. Cheers. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
