Comment 12 for bug 125283

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 04:22:29PM -0000, Kirk Fraser wrote:
> John,
>
> > What exactly do you mean Suse has this feature?
>
> I was at a Christian Game Developer's Conference in Portland last week and
> saw one fellow who was running Suse on his laptop. I mentioned this thread
> regarding Ubuntu updates. He said Suse is almost exactly the same as Ubuntu
> and it allowed him to disable updates. He didn't show me how it was done,
> so I assume it was part of the Suse setup.
>
> That is exactly what I mean as I have zero personal experience with Suse. I
> also have no idea what you mean by "repos" -- for me the term is associated
> with collection agencies. In my opinion there should be a way to separate
> ones' system from being part of the Ubuntu developer's testbed. I would be
> happy to live with the original install of Ubuntu 7 until Ubuntu 8 is
> released.
>
> I moved from Ubuntu 6 to Ubuntu 7 when 6 was getting too buggy although I'm
> not sure if the loss of features was due to updates or a virus. U7 has
> acquired one bug I noticed due to updates. I simply want a guarantee of no
> new bugs due to updates. Stopping updates is a guarantee. On the other
> hand, the "expense" of feature loss vs. the "expense" of so much email
> discussion about it is leading me to an "I don't care anymore" position on
> the issue.

Again, not updating your system when security updates are released
causes major security risk.

 - Alexander