Just remove PackageKit and install updates manually at the time of your
choosing.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Andrew Walton <andrewfixcomputer(a)gmail.com>
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.
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