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Fedora 8 Released
Cat in the Hat writes "Fedora 8 has been officially released. Ars Technica has a run-down of what's new in Fedora 8, including the PulseAudio sound daemon, Nodoka visual style, and a new authentication system. 'Another major change in Fedora 8 is the new PolicyKit authentication system that makes authority escalation more secure. Instead of providing root access to an entire program when it needs higher privileges, PolicyKit makes it possible to isolate individual operations that require higher privileges and put them into system services that can be accessed through D-Bus. Another advantage of PolicyKit is that it will give administrators more control over which users and programs have access to individual operations that use escalated privileges.'"
Just think of how good it could be if you could actually PAY people to put in the effort to make things right?
You mean something like MS does?
It would become like Vista. Isn't that great? :D
Once a Release Candidate has few enough bugs left open against it, then it becomes the final build.
In Microsoft language this is called "Service Pack 3".
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
http://mirror.facebook.com/fedora/linux/releases/
I wonder how long ballmer will be throwing chairs because one of his favored investments is giving away/make freely available an operating system he'd like to suffocate.
He is probably going to have a cozy little chat with one young Mr. Mark Zuckerberg. But, he'll start out easy. Won't throw REAL chairs in his office, but maybe lawn or bean-bags first.
Mark: (seeing chairs break the speed of light for the first time...) DUDE! Aurora Boralis, up close!
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
Is anyone collecting a list of bad free software project names? My favourite is 'RabbitWare Linux' which was, alas, never released.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com