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Red Hat Launches Entertainment-Centric 'Mugshot'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-you-want-that-tag-go? dept.

Havoc Pennington writes "A small team of us have been working on a new project called Mugshot, we're calling it a "live social experience" and hoping it will bring open source to more people who aren't using it already. The project is public as of this morning. Check out the developer site for more."

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  1. Am I the only one? by scaryjohn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When I saw "Red Hat" and "Entertainment-centric", I thought they were rolling out a media PC distribution, maybe incorporating an optimized version of MythTV.

    No?

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    One might ask the same about birds. What ARE birds? We just don't know.
  2. Re:Mugshot? Mugshot you said? by Eugenia+Loli · · Score: 2, Insightful

    [got my passwd back, I am now logged in]

    LEARN TO READ, before you reply.

    >Why on earth should Linux or Gnome ask you for the root password to copy or delete files from a user's home directory???

    I did not say about a USER's home directory. I said OUT of a user's directory. For example, when I try to copy a file on to /usr/share/app/ I want the file manager to ask me for a root password so the file operation goes through!

    >Linux is inherently a multi-user system and not everybody has access to the root password on systems where they have user accounts.

    Oh, really? We didn't know!! :P :P

    Look pal, if someone doesn't know the root password, he simply clicks "Cancel" on the dialog. But if you do know the root password, the application should provide you with that dialog and let you do the operation without having to open a terminal to do so, or open another Nautilus window as root. Apple's Finder asks for the password dialog and it's really, really, REALLY convenient. And no, there are no security problems with it.