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 -- No "No Updates" Choice https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125283 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
