Slashback: KDE, Tsunami Hacker, and Image Bugs

We Slashback, to provide updates to three recent stories. All happy news, for once. JoaoPinheiro writes "After last week's reports that Novell plans not to ship the KDE desktop on Novell and SUSE Enterprise products, the company got lots of feedback from its customers. Novell has listened to them and reconsidered its desktop strategy." Meanwhile, in the employment sector, sebFlyte writes "Daniel Cuthbert, recently a high-profile victim of the UK's outdated cybercrime laws, has found a job in the security industry." Finally, one less thing to worry about, as gUnit writes "eWeek is reporting that virus researchers at Trend Micro jumped the gun with a warning that a Trojan in the wild was capable of exploiting newly patched Windows security flaws. Just 24 hours after announcing the discovery of a proof-of-concept Trojan that supposedly exploits a trio of image-rendering vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft, Trend Micro is retreating from that claim and offering up a batch of excuses."

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more details: official Novell PR on KDE

[Anonymous Coward]

Firstly KDE will be the primary and default desktop on OpenSUSE and any future SUSE Linux releases. Secondly they will now ship the full KDE as a fully supported (and developed, whatever that means) desktop on all enterprise products. Some more details here.

Bad law vs. stupidly pissing off the judge

[nick_davison]

Daniel Cuthbert, recently a high-profile victim of the UK's outdated cybercrime laws

To be fair, if you look at what happened:

The judge indicated that he would normally have let Cuthbert go for the core act.

However, Cuthbert didn't just commit the core act, acknowledge what he'd done and then say sorry. Instead, when the police investigated, he concocted a lie about what he'd been doing, causing them to spend a lot more time and money investigating, and only told the truth when caught.

The judge outright stated that, whilst he would be inclined to simply give a slap on the wrists, the fact Cuthbert deliberately lied to the police led him to impose a harsher sentence.

The same holds true of pretty much any law. If the judge feels the law is dubious, unmerrited or whatever, he has freedom for leniency. If you piss them off by deliberately lying to the police though, don't expect them to go easy on you.

* RIGHT * (read it again)

[JabberWokky]

Please read what you just cited and what he wrote. You're not contradicting him... the text you cited refers to completely different products. From what I've seen on German sites (which I can't read and thus have to trust others for translation), KDE is still the primary choice for SUSE desktops other than NLD (i.e., the remaining products that he listed in his post). Servers and NLD will use Gnome as a default (as your cite says).

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Evan