Just remove PackageKit and install updates manually at the time of your choosing.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Andrew Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a bit of background information on myself and my firewall request. > > Personally, I've been a geek since I bought a second hand TRS-80 back in > '83. I loved DOS but thought it could have been taken further. In the late > 90's I was one of Microsoft's biggest fans, but dear old Bill retired in > 2001 and it turns out the rest of the board are complete arseholes that > couldn't give a rat's fart for their customers as long as the money keeps > rolling in. This is when I started playing with different Linuxes. > > These days I still run a couple of Windows's for playing games but they > are completely isolated systems. I never give Windows drivers for Lan or > Wireless, saves so much heartache and pain and Windows is actually stable > as long as it can't find what it thinks is an update. Runs a lot quicker > without virus protection too. Still impossibly slow compared to Fedora with > an early version of Gnome 3 though. Later versions of Gnome3 are worse than > Windows. > > My educational background - I didn't even finish high school but I had a > genuine interest in computers, like any puzzle, I just wanted to know how > they worked and ripping the case open wasn't very helpful at first. > > My community - There are many service providers in Australia catering to > about 85% of the population, but in rural Australia there is only one > service provider. Optus, Dodo, iPrimus, Vodaphone and the rest cover less > than 15% of Australia's land mass, the one unmentionable provider knows it > has us over a barrel. It can charge what it likes, ignore complaints and > fail to service infrastructure and there is nothing we can do about it. > > Just to add insult to injury, if we get someone old to phone them and > complain and mention the legal obligations of a sole service provider and > communications - "I'm old and I'm sick and I need to send my blood test > results to the doctor" etc. then we all get reliable high speed access for > a few hours before they throttle it back again. And we pay through the nose > for this type of service. > > Under normal service conditions we can get speeds of up to 1800 Kbps but > this is rare, normal speeds you would expect are around 40 Kbps. So an > unadulterated install of Fedora means that every time you turn the computer > on your internet access is bogged down by PackageKit and you can't browse > the net or send emails until it has finished 40 minutes later. > > Then there's a few people running several computers, collectively > PackageKit is costing them about $1 a day each even when they've just done > updates, and they've got no internet access for 40 minutes. Some have > rightly mentioned that except for the virus problems they were better off > with Windows. > > Then take in to consideration that the most popular accounting software > package in Australia, the one supported by our taxation department, is > Windows only. Even Mac users have to install Wine for that one. This > internet access is costing us a fortune and worse, the programmers and > developers aren't seeing any of that money, it all goes to a modern day > pirate. > > There's about 80 people running Linux in my community now, they all hated > Win8 enough to try something different. Most are Fedora but I've done a few > Ubuntu's as well depending on the person's needs, knowledge and skills, > that would be about $1200 a month just for PackageKit going to the service > provider if I didn't cripple it just after install. > > Please sort out this firewall issue, I'm sure that it won't just be my > community that is grateful. > > Cheers, > > Andrew. > -- > security mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/security -- -- Kurt Seifried -- Red Hat -- Product Security -- Cloud PGP A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993 Red Hat Product Security contact: [email protected]
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