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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.'"
This really brings back memories. Back in the day, I had red Hat (3-5) installed on a sparc "borrowed" from the computer lab (one of the perks of working there after hours and lax security). Joe, one of my coworkers, was ex military. He taught me a lot about security, and I've been an OpenBSD convert ever since he rooted my box. I've also been homosexual since he rooted my ass, but that's another story. Good times.