On another note, I'd like to see other distros do what Red Hat is doing to Fedora's boot screen: Using X resolutions for the startup. Damn, that looks nice! Thought it would be even nicer if the pointless resolution change between bootup and main X server startup was eliminated (it's usually the same res anyway).
Ah you must be refering to the bootsplash and framebuffer stuff. Its pretty simple to add this yourself if you know how to patch and recompile kernels. Just do a google/linux search for bootsplash and framebuffer.
And what about security? That seems to be their major gripe with the Redmond OSs. FTA:
The Air Force endures about one network-based attack per week that successfully exploits new vulnerabilities, Gilligan said. "There's some disruption and loss of capability," he pointed out, noting that Air Force bases all over the world support the operations of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. "We're spending more money patching and fixing than buying software," said Gilligan. It's not unusual for patching of vulnerabilities to take months to complete, he said.
This right here is down-right scary, and it appears to me that obviously promises(future employment? money?) were made and the people that are in charge of this USAF deployment do not hold that branch of the military's best interests at heart. You continue to play around in filth, don't be surprised when you come up with fleas!
Mr. Geer's report. You would think they would have learned from experience. I guess the USAF enjoys the "abuse". Some people(militaries) will have to learn the hard way I see.
With the election over, all that anger needs to be refocused somewhere. What better place to focus this frustration then to home-in on our favorite punching-bag duo of Gates and Balmer!
do not welcome the return of our current overlord! Say goodbye to America folks, time to nail the coffin shut. I wonder if anyone is so pissed right now that they are willing to start an armed revolt? Anyone??;)
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But this is like being signed up for regular crotch-kicks, since unstable breaks systems on a practically weekly basis.
LMAO. I update my Sid box on a weekly basis. Been doing this for the past 2 years and can remember only one time that using unstable caused a major problem. How often do you update your system? If you are updating your box daily/nightly then the chances of breakage increases. Slow it down if you are. Also it doesn't hurt to pay attention to the Debian Bug reports and mailing lists before updating.
Anyone got a torrent? I'm sure we the Open Source community could use the power of the all mighty/. effect to speed up the distribution of this "security update" to all the vunerable "Redhat" and Fedora users downloading it and ease up on their smoking server. C'mon! Help these wonderful guys at http://fedora-redhat.com/ , who took the big step in opening their source code which allow us the community to improve their product!
What can be done to prevent this from happening in the future? What failsafes can be built into Linux to prevent people with less than average pc skills from destroying their systems?
Nothing. Really what can you do? Do we try yo educate the joe users of the world? You can attempt to drum it in their heads so many times but they will still do stupid stuff to get infected. Well maybe deny them Internet access so their comprimised PCs won't affect the rest of us connected to the Internet. That sounds like a winner to me.
It's something in info security that disconnects when dealing with average users. They don't know what to look for, and therefore the absense of those marks is not alarming to them as it is for us... a little something that needs to be cleaned up before Linux is ready for desktop primetime.
Yet that hasn't stopped Windows from being ready for "desktop primetime" huh? There will always be dumb-witted joe users that will get burnt from these lame social engineering scams regardless of the OS. These very well could be the same people who will be taking advantage of offline as well. Linux is already on the desktop. It has been ready for primetime for awhile. Of course there is nothing it can do to protect the user from the biggest security threat of them all: the user themselves.
With desktop Linux still not having dented the 1% mark, will Syllable be the one to do to Windows what Firefox has done to IE?
Oh why do I continuosly see outrageous claims of Linux desktop share like this? Linux not dented the 1% mark? Says who? Is this an assumption or do we actually have some evidence of this?(the defunct OS stats from Google Zeitgeist are not credible.) Are we counting retail sales? Downloads? How does on come up with this figure?
Syllable will have to go through the same uphill battles on the desktop that Linux has already gone through up to this point(sans lawsuit?). But hey Linux is still moving forward regardless, just look how frightened Microsoft is? Look at how companies like Sun are confused about this "Linux thing". I have a smirk on face everytime I see these snide remarks against Linux; I know the community must be doing something right.;)
I hope Syllable sticks around, doesn't hurt to have another alternative os, but it will be a long while before Syllable even enters the consiousness of Joe & Jane User.
Ah, first you Gentoo users are bragging about your compile times and speed of your distro now you all are bragging about your use of Viagra? So it was you that responds to those viagra email spam!
I still think the less you have the more secure it is.... as long as what you have isnt bloated.
I agree.
So if this thing is more than one iso image ill be rather skeptical since debian tends to be a very large distro...
You only need to download 1 Debian ISO to install it. There even is a minimal iso version for network installs. The default Debian install is the bare miniumum. Hardly if any services are running on a default Deb install. Yes Debian has the largest selection of packages, but no one is forcing anyone to download all the ISOs just to install Deb. Just install and apt-get away what you need!
why would you need a distro for securing your machine? you should just secure your favorite distro yourself:)
My first though was laziness, but thats a lil harsh. I guess some people like certain things, in this instance security, to be automated for them. Some people also may have a difficult time trying to read documentation and understand the process of installing those security patches.
1. Lots of things can cause mushroom clouds. It may even be the case that NK is blowing up something (lots of TNT) to impress their own people and keep morale up while scaring everyone else. It may also be the case that they just detonated a nuke.
Oh yeah I'm sure the people of North Korea are ecstatic to be recieving explosions from Kim Jong-Il instead of food and economic stability.;)
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So the Windows lusers are going to be able to experience the X.org server before us Debian users(who don't want to compile)? Damn that is just sad.
Older version of this article posted back in October.
Mr. Geer's report. You would think they would have learned from experience. I guess the USAF enjoys the "abuse". Some people(militaries) will have to learn the hard way I see.
With the election over, all that anger needs to be refocused somewhere. What better place to focus this frustration then to home-in on our favorite punching-bag duo of Gates and Balmer!
do not welcome the return of our current overlord! Say goodbye to America folks, time to nail the coffin shut. I wonder if anyone is so pissed right now that they are willing to start an armed revolt? Anyone?? ;)
LMAO. I update my Sid box on a weekly basis. Been doing this for the past 2 years and can remember only one time that using unstable caused a major problem. How often do you update your system? If you are updating your box daily/nightly then the chances of breakage increases. Slow it down if you are. Also it doesn't hurt to pay attention to the Debian Bug reports and mailing lists before updating.
Anyone got a torrent? I'm sure we the Open Source community could use the power of the all mighty /. effect to speed up the distribution of this "security update" to all the vunerable "Redhat" and Fedora users downloading it and ease up on their smoking server. C'mon! Help these wonderful guys at http://fedora-redhat.com/ , who took the big step in opening their source code which allow us the community to improve their product!
Yet that hasn't stopped Windows from being ready for "desktop primetime" huh? There will always be dumb-witted joe users that will get burnt from these lame social engineering scams regardless of the OS. These very well could be the same people who will be taking advantage of offline as well. Linux is already on the desktop. It has been ready for primetime for awhile. Of course there is nothing it can do to protect the user from the biggest security threat of them all: the user themselves.
Oh why do I continuosly see outrageous claims of Linux desktop share like this? Linux not dented the 1% mark? Says who? Is this an assumption or do we actually have some evidence of this?(the defunct OS stats from Google Zeitgeist are not credible.) Are we counting retail sales? Downloads? How does on come up with this figure?
Syllable will have to go through the same uphill battles on the desktop that Linux has already gone through up to this point(sans lawsuit?). But hey Linux is still moving forward regardless, just look how frightened Microsoft is? Look at how companies like Sun are confused about this "Linux thing". I have a smirk on face everytime I see these snide remarks against Linux; I know the community must be doing something right.
I hope Syllable sticks around, doesn't hurt to have another alternative os, but it will be a long while before Syllable even enters the consiousness of Joe & Jane User.
Wake me up when O'Reilly publishes Apt-Get, Emerge, or Pkg-Add. ;)
# make Make
maybe they should run:
# apt-get install Make
and it will be here now instead of 2005!
I swear some people just make it too easy
Can you help stable my Sarge and bring it to full attention?