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Fedora 8 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hot-off-the-presses dept.

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.'"

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  1. FINALLY! by heauxmeaux · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just kidding - who gives a shit?

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    Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em
    1. Re:FINALLY! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      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.

  2. All Hail Choice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Another Linux distro gets released that:

    * Fixes some things that were broken in previous releases

    * Breaks some things that were working in previous releases

    * Places files and directories in a slightly but in no way better arrangement throughout the filesystem

    * Handles some hardware better than other distros

    * Handles different hardware worse than other distros

    * Uses a different bandaid(package management system) than other distros for installing software

    Gee, putting together an operating system that works on all levels as a consumer product is a lot of work. Just think of how good it could be if you could actually PAY people to put in the effort to make things right?

  3. Better late than never. by Animats · · Score: -1, Troll

    Finer-grained privileges! Interprocess communication! Finally, Linux gets the stuff that's been missing from Unix since 1980 or so.

    Maybe someday we'll get real exclusive use on files.

  4. Re:Yet ANOTHER sound server? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes well the man who writes it, Linux Torovaldis, is extrememly busy all the time. That's the problem with communism.

  5. W00t Fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    be treat3d by your as those non gay, but I'd rather hear MAKES ME SICK JUST

  6. Re:I'm having problems with GNOME. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Probably not. He says KDE works fine. And he said Ubuntu worked fine for months before that.

    Face reality. It probably just is a problem with GNOME. GNOME just doesn't have the developer support that KDE does, even with all the funding it gets from Red Hat, Sun, Novell and others. The GNOME codebase has stagnated, and its quality is terrible. It's no wonder that it'd crash out on this fellow's computer; it's just bad software that's prone to crashing!