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Ubuntu hsl gave me nothing.
You meant that:
http://www.ubuntu.com/certific...
?

I still regularly get "need to upgrade reboots" on my Windows machine. It's atleast once a month and always seems to pop up when I'm playing a game of LoL or CS:Go.

Yes, I use my Windows as a Wintendo. Got a problem with that?

And I suppose that Linux is better?

Just this past month I can count several Linux vulnerabilities, the patch for which requires a reboot:

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

The same goes for all of these:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

For this one you have to restart your Unity session:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

The security notices also includes a number of patches to library files. Under Linux you can replace (patch) a file even if it is loaded in a current process. However, the patches file will not take effect until said process has been restarted.

As far as I know, under Linux there is no automated process for this. Linux will not be able to patch an open LibreOffice Writer application if one of the libraries it uses are being patched. Writer will happily continue running unpatched.

Worse, you will not get a warning, and the running processes may have already loaded some libraries before the patch, and load a version of a library that is incompatible with the running process *after* the patch, simply because the OS/processes are not aware of patches. This leads to application crashes. I regularly experience crashes when I use LO on Ubuntu. Granted, I have Ubuntu installed as a VM and use it rarely, but that also means that there's typically *a lot* of patches waiting for me when I spin up the VM. Linux seems to handle patching libraries poorly and I am not aware of any system mechanism that tries to mitigate this problem.

Under Windows you have the Restart Manager. When a process load a DLL, it also locks the DLL file because it may just discard the memory where it is loaded, expecting to be able to load the exact same image later. Applications (such as Office) registers with the Restart Manager. If the Windows Updater needs to replace a locked DLL file, it looks to see if the processes that locks the DLL are all registered with the RM. If so, it can ask the registered application for their "state", restart the processes and inject the state into the processes when they come back up and registers with the RM. The RM also watches the locked files, and if the last lock that prevents a patch set (multiple files that should be replaced as part of an atomic transaction) is being released, the RM can kick of the file replace operation. This latter part is the reason why sometimes the "need to restart the system" badge disappears without a system restart.

The bottom line: Linux needs restarts/reboots just as Windows does. Sometimes you are deceived to believe that it has fewer restarts because Linux cannot by itself figure out that you *do* need to restart a process or the system. But that's actually worse because it leads to crashes.

I still regularly get "need to upgrade reboots" on my Windows machine. It's atleast once a month and always seems to pop up when I'm playing a game of LoL or CS:Go.

Yes, I use my Windows as a Wintendo. Got a problem with that?

And I suppose that Linux is better?

Just this past month I can count several Linux vulnerabilities, the patch for which requires a reboot:

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

The same goes for all of these:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

For this one you have to restart your Unity session:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

The security notices also includes a number of patches to library files. Under Linux you can replace (patch) a file even if it is loaded in a current process. However, the patches file will not take effect until said process has been restarted.

As far as I know, under Linux there is no automated process for this. Linux will not be able to patch an open LibreOffice Writer application if one of the libraries it uses are being patched. Writer will happily continue running unpatched.

Worse, you will not get a warning, and the running processes may have already loaded some libraries before the patch, and load a version of a library that is incompatible with the running process *after* the patch, simply because the OS/processes are not aware of patches. This leads to application crashes. I regularly experience crashes when I use LO on Ubuntu. Granted, I have Ubuntu installed as a VM and use it rarely, but that also means that there's typically *a lot* of patches waiting for me when I spin up the VM. Linux seems to handle patching libraries poorly and I am not aware of any system mechanism that tries to mitigate this problem.

Under Windows you have the Restart Manager. When a process load a DLL, it also locks the DLL file because it may just discard the memory where it is loaded, expecting to be able to load the exact same image later. Applications (such as Office) registers with the Restart Manager. If the Windows Updater needs to replace a locked DLL file, it looks to see if the processes that locks the DLL are all registered with the RM. If so, it can ask the registered application for their "state", restart the processes and inject the state into the processes when they come back up and registers with the RM. The RM also watches the locked files, and if the last lock that prevents a patch set (multiple files that should be replaced as part of an atomic transaction) is being released, the RM can kick of the file replace operation. This latter part is the reason why sometimes the "need to restart the system" badge disappears without a system restart.

The bottom line: Linux needs restarts/reboots just as Windows does. Sometimes you are deceived to believe that it has fewer restarts because Linux cannot by itself figure out that you *do* need to restart a process or the system. But that's actually worse because it leads to crashes.

I still regularly get "need to upgrade reboots" on my Windows machine. It's atleast once a month and always seems to pop up when I'm playing a game of LoL or CS:Go.

Yes, I use my Windows as a Wintendo. Got a problem with that?

And I suppose that Linux is better?

Just this past month I can count several Linux vulnerabilities, the patch for which requires a reboot:

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

The same goes for all of these:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

For this one you have to restart your Unity session:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

The security notices also includes a number of patches to library files. Under Linux you can replace (patch) a file even if it is loaded in a current process. However, the patches file will not take effect until said process has been restarted.

As far as I know, under Linux there is no automated process for this. Linux will not be able to patch an open LibreOffice Writer application if one of the libraries it uses are being patched. Writer will happily continue running unpatched.

Worse, you will not get a warning, and the running processes may have already loaded some libraries before the patch, and load a version of a library that is incompatible with the running process *after* the patch, simply because the OS/processes are not aware of patches. This leads to application crashes. I regularly experience crashes when I use LO on Ubuntu. Granted, I have Ubuntu installed as a VM and use it rarely, but that also means that there's typically *a lot* of patches waiting for me when I spin up the VM. Linux seems to handle patching libraries poorly and I am not aware of any system mechanism that tries to mitigate this problem.

Under Windows you have the Restart Manager. When a process load a DLL, it also locks the DLL file because it may just discard the memory where it is loaded, expecting to be able to load the exact same image later. Applications (such as Office) registers with the Restart Manager. If the Windows Updater needs to replace a locked DLL file, it looks to see if the processes that locks the DLL are all registered with the RM. If so, it can ask the registered application for their "state", restart the processes and inject the state into the processes when they come back up and registers with the RM. The RM also watches the locked files, and if the last lock that prevents a patch set (multiple files that should be replaced as part of an atomic transaction) is being released, the RM can kick of the file replace operation. This latter part is the reason why sometimes the "need to restart the system" badge disappears without a system restart.

The bottom line: Linux needs restarts/reboots just as Windows does. Sometimes you are deceived to believe that it has fewer restarts because Linux cannot by itself figure out that you *do* need to restart a process or the system. But that's actually worse because it leads to crashes.

I still regularly get "need to upgrade reboots" on my Windows machine. It's atleast once a month and always seems to pop up when I'm playing a game of LoL or CS:Go.

Yes, I use my Windows as a Wintendo. Got a problem with that?

And I suppose that Linux is better?

Just this past month I can count several Linux vulnerabilities, the patch for which requires a reboot:

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

The same goes for all of these:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

For this one you have to restart your Unity session:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

The security notices also includes a number of patches to library files. Under Linux you can replace (patch) a file even if it is loaded in a current process. However, the patches file will not take effect until said process has been restarted.

As far as I know, under Linux there is no automated process for this. Linux will not be able to patch an open LibreOffice Writer application if one of the libraries it uses are being patched. Writer will happily continue running unpatched.

Worse, you will not get a warning, and the running processes may have already loaded some libraries before the patch, and load a version of a library that is incompatible with the running process *after* the patch, simply because the OS/processes are not aware of patches. This leads to application crashes. I regularly experience crashes when I use LO on Ubuntu. Granted, I have Ubuntu installed as a VM and use it rarely, but that also means that there's typically *a lot* of patches waiting for me when I spin up the VM. Linux seems to handle patching libraries poorly and I am not aware of any system mechanism that tries to mitigate this problem.

Under Windows you have the Restart Manager. When a process load a DLL, it also locks the DLL file because it may just discard the memory where it is loaded, expecting to be able to load the exact same image later. Applications (such as Office) registers with the Restart Manager. If the Windows Updater needs to replace a locked DLL file, it looks to see if the processes that locks the DLL are all registered with the RM. If so, it can ask the registered application for their "state", restart the processes and inject the state into the processes when they come back up and registers with the RM. The RM also watches the locked files, and if the last lock that prevents a patch set (multiple files that should be replaced as part of an atomic transaction) is being released, the RM can kick of the file replace operation. This latter part is the reason why sometimes the "need to restart the system" badge disappears without a system restart.

The bottom line: Linux needs restarts/reboots just as Windows does. Sometimes you are deceived to believe that it has fewer restarts because Linux cannot by itself figure out that you *do* need to restart a process or the system. But that's actually worse because it leads to crashes.

I still regularly get "need to upgrade reboots" on my Windows machine. It's atleast once a month and always seems to pop up when I'm playing a game of LoL or CS:Go.

Yes, I use my Windows as a Wintendo. Got a problem with that?

And I suppose that Linux is better?

Just this past month I can count several Linux vulnerabilities, the patch for which requires a reboot:

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

The same goes for all of these:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

For this one you have to restart your Unity session:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

The security notices also includes a number of patches to library files. Under Linux you can replace (patch) a file even if it is loaded in a current process. However, the patches file will not take effect until said process has been restarted.

As far as I know, under Linux there is no automated process for this. Linux will not be able to patch an open LibreOffice Writer application if one of the libraries it uses are being patched. Writer will happily continue running unpatched.

Worse, you will not get a warning, and the running processes may have already loaded some libraries before the patch, and load a version of a library that is incompatible with the running process *after* the patch, simply because the OS/processes are not aware of patches. This leads to application crashes. I regularly experience crashes when I use LO on Ubuntu. Granted, I have Ubuntu installed as a VM and use it rarely, but that also means that there's typically *a lot* of patches waiting for me when I spin up the VM. Linux seems to handle patching libraries poorly and I am not aware of any system mechanism that tries to mitigate this problem.

Under Windows you have the Restart Manager. When a process load a DLL, it also locks the DLL file because it may just discard the memory where it is loaded, expecting to be able to load the exact same image later. Applications (such as Office) registers with the Restart Manager. If the Windows Updater needs to replace a locked DLL file, it looks to see if the processes that locks the DLL are all registered with the RM. If so, it can ask the registered application for their "state", restart the processes and inject the state into the processes when they come back up and registers with the RM. The RM also watches the locked files, and if the last lock that prevents a patch set (multiple files that should be replaced as part of an atomic transaction) is being released, the RM can kick of the file replace operation. This latter part is the reason why sometimes the "need to restart the system" badge disappears without a system restart.

The bottom line: Linux needs restarts/reboots just as Windows does. Sometimes you are deceived to believe that it has fewer restarts because Linux cannot by itself figure out that you *do* need to restart a process or the system. But that's actually worse because it leads to crashes.

I still regularly get "need to upgrade reboots" on my Windows machine. It's atleast once a month and always seems to pop up when I'm playing a game of LoL or CS:Go.

Yes, I use my Windows as a Wintendo. Got a problem with that?

And I suppose that Linux is better?

Just this past month I can count several Linux vulnerabilities, the patch for which requires a reboot:

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

The same goes for all of these:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

For this one you have to restart your Unity session:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

The security notices also includes a number of patches to library files. Under Linux you can replace (patch) a file even if it is loaded in a current process. However, the patches file will not take effect until said process has been restarted.

As far as I know, under Linux there is no automated process for this. Linux will not be able to patch an open LibreOffice Writer application if one of the libraries it uses are being patched. Writer will happily continue running unpatched.

Worse, you will not get a warning, and the running processes may have already loaded some libraries before the patch, and load a version of a library that is incompatible with the running process *after* the patch, simply because the OS/processes are not aware of patches. This leads to application crashes. I regularly experience crashes when I use LO on Ubuntu. Granted, I have Ubuntu installed as a VM and use it rarely, but that also means that there's typically *a lot* of patches waiting for me when I spin up the VM. Linux seems to handle patching libraries poorly and I am not aware of any system mechanism that tries to mitigate this problem.

Under Windows you have the Restart Manager. When a process load a DLL, it also locks the DLL file because it may just discard the memory where it is loaded, expecting to be able to load the exact same image later. Applications (such as Office) registers with the Restart Manager. If the Windows Updater needs to replace a locked DLL file, it looks to see if the processes that locks the DLL are all registered with the RM. If so, it can ask the registered application for their "state", restart the processes and inject the state into the processes when they come back up and registers with the RM. The RM also watches the locked files, and if the last lock that prevents a patch set (multiple files that should be replaced as part of an atomic transaction) is being released, the RM can kick of the file replace operation. This latter part is the reason why sometimes the "need to restart the system" badge disappears without a system restart.

The bottom line: Linux needs restarts/reboots just as Windows does. Sometimes you are deceived to believe that it has fewer restarts because Linux cannot by itself figure out that you *do* need to restart a process or the system. But that's actually worse because it leads to crashes.

I still regularly get "need to upgrade reboots" on my Windows machine. It's atleast once a month and always seems to pop up when I'm playing a game of LoL or CS:Go.

Yes, I use my Windows as a Wintendo. Got a problem with that?

And I suppose that Linux is better?

Just this past month I can count several Linux vulnerabilities, the patch for which requires a reboot:

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

The same goes for all of these:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-..., http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

For this one you have to restart your Unity session:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-...

The security notices also includes a number of patches to library files. Under Linux you can replace (patch) a file even if it is loaded in a current process. However, the patches file will not take effect until said process has been restarted.

As far as I know, under Linux there is no automated process for this. Linux will not be able to patch an open LibreOffice Writer application if one of the libraries it uses are being patched. Writer will happily continue running unpatched.

Worse, you will not get a warning, and the running processes may have already loaded some libraries before the patch, and load a version of a library that is incompatible with the running process *after* the patch, simply because the OS/processes are not aware of patches. This leads to application crashes. I regularly experience crashes when I use LO on Ubuntu. Granted, I have Ubuntu installed as a VM and use it rarely, but that also means that there's typically *a lot* of patches waiting for me when I spin up the VM. Linux seems to handle patching libraries poorly and I am not aware of any system mechanism that tries to mitigate this problem.

Under Windows you have the Restart Manager. When a process load a DLL, it also locks the DLL file because it may just discard the memory where it is loaded, expecting to be able to load the exact same image later. Applications (such as Office) registers with the Restart Manager. If the Windows Updater needs to replace a locked DLL file, it looks to see if the processes that locks the DLL are all registered with the RM. If so, it can ask the registered application for their "state", restart the processes and inject the state into the processes when they come back up and registers with the RM. The RM also watches the locked files, and if the last lock that prevents a patch set (multiple files that should be replaced as part of an atomic transaction) is being released, the RM can kick of the file replace operation. This latter part is the reason why sometimes the "need to restart the system" badge disappears without a system restart.

The bottom line: Linux needs restarts/reboots just as Windows does. Sometimes you are deceived to believe that it has fewer restarts because Linux cannot by itself figure out that you *do* need to restart a process or the system. But that's actually worse because it leads to crashes.

Give us a nice, simple, standard GUI without a bazillion customisations, and with the ability to to just install an app from the GUI and run it from the GUI, and Linux might actually work on the desktop.

You can find all of that at http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/ .
Millions of people are already using it, for years now.
The only challenge it might have, is that it complies with the simplicity and ease of use you demand. But that's for hardcore users to care about, and they have alternatives.

"Phishing emails are without a doubt one of the biggest security issues consumers and businesses face today."

Only on Microsoft Windows, the Operating System that made clicking on a URL or opening an email attachment dangerous. Mainly because Windows doesn't know the difference between OPEN and RUN. If you want to be safe doing your online banking then use a LiveCD

A live CD isn't going to help against a redirect attack and subsequent harvest of your login credentials.

The only real protection for this type of attack is if your banks, credit card companies, etc. and you use one time passwords (i.e. one or more tokens of some sort)

"Phishing emails are without a doubt one of the biggest security issues consumers and businesses face today."

Only on Microsoft Windows, the Operating System that made clicking on a URL or opening an email attachment dangerous. Mainly because Windows doesn't know the difference between OPEN and RUN. If you want to be safe doing your online banking then use a LiveCD

WIkipedia has a list of a dozen open-source phones with operating systems such as OpenMoko and Firefox OS, which includes parts of Android:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

Nokia makes Android phones without the Google apps, and Google gives away the base operating system that allows them to do so.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/...

Cyanogenmod lets you run Android with no Google apps, some Google apps, or all Google apps - whatever you want.
http://www.cyanogenmod.org/

Ubuntu Touch may appeal to you:
http://www.ubuntu.com/phone

Thou shall ask and The Internet shall provide: zfsonlinux.org and wiki.ubuntu.com/ZFS.

Note however the license problem en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Linux (the article even talk about potential patent problems in case a re-implementation is attempted ...)

Of course Ubuntu supports ARM
http://www.ubuntu.com/download...

I run Debian on my ARM board.

Depends, sometimes very soon, sometimes it takes some time. But firefox is one of the few programs with an exception to the rule that an ubuntu release only adds very few updates.

They are obviously heading for open source instead of being locked in to Microsoft.

You don't say...

I'm a server hugger because clouds are too unwieldy and fluffy to hug :) Cloud is not a threat to server huggers. It is a complementary technology.
If the server you're hugging is dead in the water for whatever reason like an ACT OF GOD, the cloud is great for remote backup of your data or failover to ensure some service is provided from elsewhere at a different location where the ACT OF GOD had no effect. Google, Amazon, Ubuntu all have the ability to specify "Geographically dispersed locations"/"bitbucket locations" for your cloud storage/cloud apps. GOOGLE, AMAZON, UBUNTU win for cloud because when your requirements include that kind of thing, you won't be able to implement the same thing in a manner that is as cost-effective as GOOGLE, AMAZON, UBUNTU. For big companies 4k$/month is a drop in a bucket.

If however you are a "TRUST NO ONE WITH MY DATA HUGGER", that's a different matter. You'll want to encrypt your data, You'll want to own the servers where the data resides no matter what the costs and not want to trust GOOGLE, AMAZON, UBUNTU with your data. That's where DIY IN-HOUSE SERVER and IN-HOUSE GEOGRAPHICALLY DISPERSED BACKUP/FAILOVER SERVERS are interesting. You can call it IN-HOUSE CLOUD. As an example UBUNTU offers IN-HOUSE CLOUD solutions: Check out ORANGE BOX:
https://insights.ubuntu.com/20...

Create digital masters on hard disk with Gnome CD Master : https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/ap... also on 13.10 here : http://ubuntuforums.org/showth...

Mavericks are so 2010. We're on Trusties now.

Mavericks are so 2010. We're on Trusties now.

https://help.ubuntu.com/commun...

The Upgrade Path is easy. Just say yes, then click here, then install your new, stable, virus-free operating system. You don't have to pay for it, but you can donate money if you want. And never look back.

I think they mean this one...

Your a real piece of work.
First off you don't know what the fuck your talking about.
If you spend a year loading up and debugging a video production box, which happily cranks out 1 hour shows, then one day some gay/fag comes along and changes it, and breaks the whole fucking thing. In this case the change isn't scarry, it's a fucking financial disaster you piece of shit.
People have customized their browsers for productivity on desktops, along come these gay/fag netbook UI programmers and they all want to profit off netbooks, and so you force this shit out which breaks an unknown amount of shit. You fucked the productivity, usability, security.

sure one could roll back since one has cloned said workstations.

or in linux, wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubu...

and then press on with fucking life.

But you miss the point. going forward, only more shit will get fucked.
With your logic, my old machines should be thrown away and new ones bought. But I have news for your illogic, the new machines CAN'T DO what the old ones did. How do I know, cause, after listening to year after year of lies, fud and propaganda I finally said fuck it and got a few new machines, and guess what.. They won't load up with the software needed to get the fucking JOBS done!

Oh yeah, if I was a fucking billionaire, I could just buy more licenses of Adobe, Sony, et al.. And more machines, and more windows OS's. And more firewalls to run it all parallel. (Since you can't turn off the old machines that actually cranks out the product which makes money in the first place)

By your logic all the ATM's should be outlawed until they are upgraded to windows 8 embedded

Your a fucking one-line anonymous punk. And your misguided, and I jsut about had it with motherfuckers like you. All I do is help people each day, with you, it's fart in your chair, while formating C for some newfangled shit that don't work.

It's very simple; Before you buy something you check the list of supported hardware.

• For a computer you check Ubuntu's certified hardware list
• For a phone you check Cyanogenmod's list of hardware
• For a router you check OpenWRT's list of hardware

If you buy things that aren't officially supported for any reason other than because you want to develop for or test the hardware then basically you end up wasting your time and the time of volunteers on support forums needlessly. If you decide something like "it would be fun to have unsupported hardware to play with" then you should be willing to put in lots and lots more time for experimenting and trying to fix things yourself.

You could run multiple X sessions on different vterms to get around the "other people" problem. There are several different ways to do that.

As of writing, the "release notes" link in the summary points to the upgrade instructions on nixCraft, whereas it presumably should have pointed to this:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Trusty...
Please fix!

What's the point if suspend resume doesn't work at all?

Here's my SLEEP script, in which I am testing various kernels:

#!/bin/bash

logger "========== touch forcefsck ==========="
# if resume failed, then I want fsck (SSD disks, so it's just few seconds)
touch /forcefsck
/bin/sync
sleep 1

logger "hibernating"
# https://help.ubuntu.com/commun...
# it says there to try hibernating using various different methods

### method: 1 kernel 3,13,0 - fail, (2/6 success rate)
#/usr/sbin/hibernate

### method: 2 kernel 3,13,0 - fail, (3/6 success rate)
#/usr/sbin/s2disk

### method: 3 kernel 3.13.0 - fail, (2/6 success rate)
#echo platform > /sys/power/disk
#echo disk > /sys/power/state

### method: 4 kernel 3.13.0 - (3/6 success rate)
### kernel 3.2.0 - 80% sukcesów 20% fail (over 80/100 success rate - currently in use)
### kernel 3.12-bpo - (0/1) success rate)
echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk
echo disk > /sys/power/state

sleep 5
logger "restart network"
## something screws networking after resume
/etc/init.d/networking restart
sleep 2

## also UPS connection is screwed (sometimes I need to disconnect and reconnect the USB cable)
sleep 5
/etc/init.d/nut-client stop
sleep 5
/etc/init.d/nut-server stop
sleep 5
/etc/init.d/nut-server start
sleep 5
/etc/init.d/nut-client start
sleep 5
# don't mess with clock /etc/init.d/ntp restart
logger "resume complete"

Besides, this is old news. Our new and better site beat slashdot: https://soylentnews.org/articl... . The only working kernel was 2.6.29 with tuxonice

I don't know why it says to edit smb.conf directly when the easy button way to set up Samba is with "system-config-samba"

Me either. But that's what the manual says.

This sort of thing is why Linux is a failure on the desktop. The "real way" to do something is by editing a text file. Then there are third party hacks to make it "easier", until the third party hack screws up something.

It's not a Mint thing, it's a "use a supported operating system" thing. Support for Mint Olivia ended in January, along with Ubuntu 13.04 that it's based on. "If your version of Ubuntu is not listed above, it is no longer supported and does not receive security or critical fixes."

Ubuntu is completely free to download, use and share. ref

Running 12.04 LTS and updated openssl to 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.12

Which contains the patch.
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/c...

System is still vulnerable. Seeing this reported on askubuntu as well. filippo checker confirms site is still vulnerable after upgrade

Make sure you restart the service. Any processes launched before installing the patch may still include the old version of the shared library.

This doesn't help him. He wants windows firewall or norton internet security level of firewall (but for linux) for his own computer.

I'm a huge fan of pfSense, but it's not a desktop OS.

Honestly, I think the OP needs to realize that even today, Linux requires a little command line foo. Look at the official ubuntu documentation and turn on the firewall. Blocking incoming traffic is sufficient on Linux most of the time. There's much less malware that will connect out and cause harm.

See https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/... if you want to get into some gritty details. This is the server guide, they may have a more user friendly desktop guide, but it should still be useful.

I don't want to spend ages configuring. Glitches included a list of problems I included in a previous thread. Sorry but it does NOT look slick at all, the graphics look dated. I used 3.5, then switched to xfce4, then to Gnome, then to KDE 4.0, then at 4.3 switched to Unity. If it wasn't for the spyware I would definitely be sticking to Unity, it looks very polished and is easy to use. I played with KDE at Christmas and tried shifting a guinea pig family member to it even, but ended up switching all the machines to Linux Mint. So far Mint looks like my target when I reformat, though it's not my ideal desktop.

I love the idea of KDE, it pleases me technically, but take at look at the screenshot (I would like to say screenshots but there is only one): the mess of Dolphin, the Windows95 task bar. Now compare it to Unity (amazing interactive demo, as well as slick looking desktop), or these themes for the still immature Cinnamon and compare it to kde-look.org.

I've written apps using QT, it's very nice. But as a desktop it's got a hell of a long way to go.

Phillip.

they plan on moving to something unsupported all the time

Pretty sure Linux isn't unsupported. If you're so inclined, you can pay for support if you want it

Unlike with Windows, you get your pick of providers (and yes, that includes big-name, management-friendly corporations), for any particular aspect/application of Linux.

Up next I predict a Linux ID

You need to create a Canonical account to use some of the optional online features of Ubuntu, such as Ubuntu One backup, paid applications in Ubuntu Software Center, and participation in Ubuntu Forums and Launchpad.

Seem to remember an update to gnutls for this problem! http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-... USN-1752-1: GnuTLS vulnerability and a standard update fixes it! Whoopty doo! Kind of why I like that Ubuntu doesn't wait for an arbitrary day of the month to issue updates and patches!

Using GnuTLS avoids the licensing issues that can arise from employing the more common OpenSSL package. For this reason, certain packages such as OpenLDAP are compiled with support for GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL in recent releases of Ubuntu.

In fact, on one of my Ubuntu 13.10 systems I ran ldd on /usr/bin/* and /bin/*, and found many many binaries that link in GnuTLS.

Then we get some of the silliness from Ubuntu trying to shove a new way down everyones' throat

Oh yeah, they're REALLY forcing it down our throats...

Recognised Ubuntu flavours

These are derivatives that use Ubuntu as their foundation and contribute significantly towards the project.

Edubuntu — Ubuntu for education
Ubuntu GNOME — Ubuntu with the GNOME desktop environment
Kubuntu — Ubuntu with the K Desktop environment
Ubuntu Kylin — Ubuntu localised for China
Lubuntu — Ubuntu that uses LXDE
Mythbuntu — Designed for creating a home theatre PC with MythTV
Ubuntu Studio — Designed for multimedia editing and creation
Xubuntu — Ubuntu with the XFCE desktop environment

Other derivatives

A complete list of known derivatives is maintained on the Ubuntu Wiki Derivatives Team page.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Deriva...

There's a very simple app called BotSync that can be set to sync a folder either up or down manually or at an interval. It uses SFTP, so no special software is required on your Linux PC. It's pretty barebones, but brain-dead simple.

Other than that, Dropbox is probably the way to go if you want them synced as soon as they're taken. Ubuntu one also has a similar solution that may work for your needs (and do other nifty things as well).

At the risk of introducing information into the discussion ... some of the other respondents have taken oblique cue shots off this info, but to get it out on the table ... EMET is a software package that enforces otherwise existing security protections on programs that may not have them in place. For example, DEP, ASLR, SEHOP (very Windows-specific mitigation), heapspray prevention, and in 4.1 they added certificate pinning, to detect mitm attacks. (looking up acronyms left as an exercise for the reader)

The good news - these mitigations can be applied from outside the apps involved (as of 4.1, no more app recompiling or special-versions needed). The somewhat bad news - there are compatibility issues, and many apps are not compatible with the whole list of protections (see the MS KB article for more info). I also wonder if there are performance impacts from doing so, as opposed to compiling in the mitigations that can be compiled in - but don't quote me on that, I'm not sure

More bad news - it won't work with certain app features, e.g. any code that accesses certain system services at too low a level, so for example DRM-using apps (so many videogames are off the table); and it only intended for desktop apps (so they "do not advise" you use it with system services or server apps).

We tested the 3.0 version, focusing solely on the mitigations that could be imposed from outside the code even in that version - and found that many apps had issues with most, and some with all, of the mitigations (and, a killer for us, it wouldn't work with virtualized apps). Maybe that's improved, not claiming to know.

All in all - it has value if you're deploying legacy apps over which you have no control to a broad array of desktops, and it doesn't break your apps. Frankly, I don't know why the emphasis on IE11 ... I think the only protection that wouldn't already be compiled in is the certificate pinning, but maybe that alone is enough - or it makes it doubly difficult to break out of IE11 if you have the compiled in e.g. ASLR as well as the imposed-sandbox ASLR ... not sure.

To be clear ... it's NOT comparable to mandatory access control - it's more mitigation-specific than that. And also, by way of information, the open source operating systems often enforce the same kinds of mitigations on the apps that they support from their repositories (e.g., the Canonical Ubuntu team compiles every app in their repo with all possible mitigations -- see the Ubuntu security features page for more info). That's one of the big advantages of open source - you don't have to try to impose really-meant-to-be-compiled-in security features from outside.

And see if someone tries to force them to change the name again.

Like Ubuntu, who have their Ubuntu One Storage service.

https://one.ubuntu.com/

Does Microsoft for some reason want to keep on using names that are similar to what others are already using?

The name reminds me of another cloud storage service strongly identified with an OS https://one.ubuntu.com/

Good point. I guess Microsoft thinks they have such a big war-chest they can tell everyone else to fuck off.

This hasn't been working for Apple lately, not sure why MS thinks it'll work for them.

This wouldn't be the first time Microsoft co-incidentally named something confusingly similar to a rival service - OneDrive not to be confused with Ubuntu One or Office Open XML not to be confused with Open Office XML, or Palm PC not to be confused with Palm Pilot ..

The name reminds me of another cloud storage service strongly identified with an OS https://one.ubuntu.com/

If you are ready to live on the edge (you must be since you brought the first mass-produced Maemo phone), buy a Nexus phone and try Ubuntu for Android.

Since Google makes no money on sale of Android phones, not using the Android part would mean you are not supporting Google/Android (whatever reasons you have for it).

The only thing which truly works for me is the Debian/Ubuntu package system, and so I use it for server applications, but for desktop: NO. And I write most of my software now for browser (html5/js/webgl) and do the heavy lifting on a server: multi-platform via browser layer.

So, let me get this straight...you're heavily HTML5-desktop-apps-oriented, you're developing them yourself, you're using the one Linux distro that natively supports HTML5 apps on its desktop, and you're NOT using it as your desktop? Even though that seems to be what you're asking for?

Motionjoy bad! Scarlett Crush Productions DS3 driver is where it's at! Even supports up to 4 controllers!

There's various solutions already for getting the DS3 to work under LInux

There is a fix for this problem posted here.