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Debian 3.0r6 Released
Polkan Garcia writes "The Debian group has released an update to the 'Woody' distribution of the popular GNU/Linux OS. From the site: 'This is the sixth and final update of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (codename 'woody') which mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems. Those who frequently update from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update.' More good news: r6 is the final update of woody, the new stable release is coming."
...is YOUR woody secure?
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Once he'd got the employees up and running with Debian we let them try it out. It all seemed fine to start with: The Debian systems was a pretty good replacement for those shitty Windows boxes we'd used before and the employees could still do their work as normal.
Alas it did not stay that way. After a few days, I had lost count of the number of complaints received from our employees. Users could not do things they could before (like read their email). The final straw came when one employee lost several hours work when OpenOffice suddenly froze up, destroying the 70 page legal document he had been working on (subsequently, the defendant was sentenced to death.)
Needless to say, the Debian community, having been stagnant for half a decade, offered no support whatsoever. I made the employee destroy the Debian systems and lets just say he's not with us anymore.
That sounds good, but I hope that they're not just succumbing to deadline pressure and shoving this thing out the door half baked.
What of his is retarded?
"Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." --Eric Blair
His retarded Debian? His retarded red hat? His retarded devil?
Speak up.
I forget what 8 was for.
Yep, I spend a lot of time hardening my woody...
"It's the smell! If there is such a thing." Agent Smith - The Matrix
An employee suggested to me that we troll on a few Slashdot topics as an evaluation. I was skeptical at first but he explained the benefits of trolling on Slashdot instead of wanking off in a dark closet. I decided to let him troll in 5 topics to see how the trolling got on. Besides, our IT manager had been trolling Slashdot at home and he hadn't reported any problems - why not try it on with our employees?
Once he'd got the employees up and running with Slashdot trolling we let them try it out. It all seemed fine to start with: The Slashdot trolls were a pretty good replacement for trolling on yiffy/slash-porn forums like we'd used to before and the employees could still wank in their closets as normal.
Alas it did not stay that way. After a few days, I had lost count of the number of complaints received from slashbots. Posters got wise to the boilerplate. The final straw came when one poster modified our troll post to make fun of us, destroying the 70 pages of troll feeding we had been working on (subsequently, the poster was modded up.)
Needless to say, the Slashdot community, having been stagnant for half a decade, offered no support whatsoever. I made the employee go back to wanking in his dark closet and lets just say he's not with us anymore.
Yes, but did it give you a woody?
"A big thankyou to all the Debian maintainers. May all your beers be cold."
Hey, some of the Debian maintainers are British, you know. "May all your beers be cold or, if drinking real ale, at slightly below room temperature."
Debian works just fine on my Russian surplus kerosine-powered 50 pound laptop. Of course, I had to get the kerosine drivers from an external source and modify the kernel during build to not use the coal-powered module.