The wonderful thing about opensource is that it not the quantity or quality of software it develops, but how this software was developed. You can gain years and years of experience of even the most high investment things because the opensource community is driven by expertise and the ability to grow, nothing more. If you're a web designer, looking for experience, donate your work to the opensource community, that extra experience you get might be worth it. If you're a developer, become a committer to some larger projects, gain that experience and ability. If you have skills, always try to make use of them in any possible method, it does count. Believe it or not, most managers will be impressed by such things, experience *is* experience.
Redhat 8.0 (almost all distributions have some sort of automount daemon available) has an automount daemon. As soon as you insert a CD, it will be automounted (if there is autorun it will be executed, if it is an audio CD, a music player will run, a dvd player, etc...). An icon of the device will also appear. I recommend you download Redhat 8.0 for your children (it is very easy to use, I got my younger brother to use Linux productively quite easily). Otherwise, just configure the automount daemon to work well with your distribution. Adding a type to deal with a Windows autorun CD is not hard (see WineX).
Users thinking that Opera is dead should be reading Slashdot a little bit more carefully. This "small time" browser is very quickly becoming the leading source of components for embedded systems' web browsers (it's small screen rendering is the only way to go). This is not to talk about the accomplishments it has made on PC and workstation platforms, without a doubt it contains one of the fastest page rendering subsystems out there.
I am willing to bet anyone that Opera will be a little bit more than rich by years end.
I use SuSE Linux 8.0. It is packed with binary distribution and source code distributions (for most of the software).
So, why would should I switch to Gentoo? I have all the.src.rpms I need on the SuSE installation disks. If I have the urge to recompile some software, I can do so off the src.rpms with no hassle at all. I assure you that nothing off the original SuSE CD is on here (from the kernel to windowmaker). Once Gentoo offers packages off its CDs I will be ready for it, otherwise, Gentoo is just a dream for the many dialup users.
and how about the portage system? Almost every mainstream distribution out there is integrating online software package management into their distributions (Yes, SuSE included).
The Medusa project allows the implementation of system call policies in Linux. Google for it. I think with smart rulesets; chroot and jail are all redundant. For example, denying untrusted user set*id access (toppled by smart fileaccess privileges) renders most "security" attacks useless for that user (he cannot cause any real damage other than DoS, which can also be stopped by implementing thread/fork timers for that user).
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The wonderful thing about opensource is that it not the quantity or quality of software it develops, but how this software was developed. You can gain years and years of experience of even the most high investment things because the opensource community is driven by expertise and the ability to grow, nothing more. If you're a web designer, looking for experience, donate your work to the opensource community, that extra experience you get might be worth it. If you're a developer, become a committer to some larger projects, gain that experience and ability. If you have skills, always try to make use of them in any possible method, it does count. Believe it or not, most managers will be impressed by such things, experience *is* experience.
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There wasn't. Now, there is. Please get a clue.
Redhat 8.0 (almost all distributions have some sort of automount daemon available) has an automount daemon. As soon as you insert a CD, it will be automounted (if there is autorun it will be executed, if it is an audio CD, a music player will run, a dvd player, etc...). An icon of the device will also appear. I recommend you download Redhat 8.0 for your children (it is very easy to use, I got my younger brother to use Linux productively quite easily). Otherwise, just configure the automount daemon to work well with your distribution. Adding a type to deal with a Windows autorun CD is not hard (see WineX).
Users thinking that Opera is dead should be reading Slashdot a little bit more carefully. This "small time" browser is very quickly becoming the leading source of components for embedded systems' web browsers (it's small screen rendering is the only way to go). This is not to talk about the accomplishments it has made on PC and workstation platforms, without a doubt it contains one of the fastest page rendering subsystems out there. I am willing to bet anyone that Opera will be a little bit more than rich by years end.
I use SuSE Linux 8.0. It is packed with binary distribution and source code distributions (for most of the software). So, why would should I switch to Gentoo? I have all the .src.rpms I need on the SuSE installation disks. If I have the urge to recompile some software, I can do so off the src.rpms with no hassle at all. I assure you that nothing off the original SuSE CD is on here (from the kernel to windowmaker). Once Gentoo offers packages off its CDs I will be ready for it, otherwise, Gentoo is just a dream for the many dialup users.
and how about the portage system? Almost every mainstream distribution out there is integrating online software package management into their distributions (Yes, SuSE included).
The Medusa project allows the implementation of system call policies in Linux. Google for it. I think with smart rulesets; chroot and jail are all redundant. For example, denying untrusted user set*id access (toppled by smart fileaccess privileges) renders most "security" attacks useless for that user (he cannot cause any real damage other than DoS, which can also be stopped by implementing thread/fork timers for that user).