Comment 13 for bug 125283

Again, I think the risk of not updating between Ubuntu 7 and Ubuntu 8 is not
significant. Therefore, perhaps you should quantify the risk if you are
going to continue claiming it is "major." How many hours can U 7 be
expected to run bug free with and without updates? I think that should be
the deciding factor for the general population of users, even though I
understand developers must constantly update for a variety of reasons.

Kirk

On 7/23/07, Alexander Sack <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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> No "No Updates" Choice
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