I am a Debian user. I have experimented with Slackware. Most recently I installed Slackware 13.37. But after a month I went back to Debian simply because I prefer to work with apt-get. I am personally more efficient with Debian.
Having said that Slackware has been around for a long time. People who use it don't just like it...they love it. Slackware must be doing something right.
My personal experience is that the community support on IRC #slackware is outstanding and must be one of the reasons for the distro's longevity.
So Congratulations to the Slackware community!
The Google Maps of Cambodia are useless here because they use Street Names and everybody here uses Street Numbers. Google have been told zillions of times but they obviously don't give a crap. I guess the market is too small for them to bother. Open Street Map is much more usable here.
Asian women also avoid key white women characteristics such as having a mid life crisis, divorce, and hobbies that donâ(TM)t involve taking care of the children or cooking for their husband.
See for more info http://tinyurl.com/3r8x6o
The answer is: "It depends." Nobody is putting a gun to your head to make you use free or non-free software. Most people will be pragmatic and use what works. "It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice". Others will take a purist approach. They may choose do do without the convience of certain programs. Neither approach is wrong. Does the software do what you want it to do? If your needs are fully met by free software great!
The most important thing to clone from Ubuntu are the forums and the Wiki and #ubuntu on irc.
It became easy to ask questions and find answers without snide RTFM's abounding as is often the case on #debian.
The other community that I find very polite is #slackware. That could be why they are still around today.
It's not Debian. Debian has had the ability to fully encrypt the root partition during installation since Sarge I think. Etch for sure. Ubuntu can do it too with the alternate installer. OpenSuse and Slackware have excellent docs on how to get / file encryption.
Disk Encryption is essential for laptops and removable media in 2008.
If Solaris wants to get adopted by government and financial sectors for use on laptops it will need to have some form of serious disk encryption.
To be fair to the OpenSolaris people there are two teams working on encryption solutions but I think they lag well behind Linux or even Windows (Truecrypt) solutions.
Two in development projects:
Crypto in the lofi(7D) driver (a bit like dm-crypt on Linux or FileVault
on MacOS X):
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/loficc/ due to integrate soon.
and ZFS Crypto which is still in development but due to integrate this
summer.
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/zfs-crypto/
However neither of these provide for an encrypted root filesystem as they aren't full disk encryption solutions. However with ZFS Crypto all of your home directory and other datasets (filesystems) with sensitive data can be encrypted.
I for one welcome my Sun Microsystems overlords...actually I am glad to see another alternative to Windows becoming more accessible to the masses.
I have my copy in bittorrent now ready to install in my [Sun Microsystems] Virtualbox 1.6.0
Congratulations to the Project Indiana Team!
Ubuntu Hardy Heron using the alternative installer allows full disk encryption with a passphrase during the install.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=873&num=1
Debian has had this since Etch I think.
Slackware and SUSE also have a good set of docs on how to set up full disk encrytion. Not as easy as Ubuntu or Debian though.
Actually it is more a fully encrypted root partition. The/boot needs to unencrypted to function. You can use an integrity checker to ensure this is not tampered with.
There is no excuse in 2008 for not using encryption.
And use a real operating system. Not Windows!
Corporate Propaganda says Americans don't care but...
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
Joseph Goebbels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie
While you are at it (using your logic) the Romans massacred people all over Europe. So let us declare war on Italy.
Blaming the entire Estonian nation, most of whom were not even born at the time, is irrational. Individuals commit war crimes not countries. And individuals who commit war crimes, particularly the senior leaders, should be tried.
I did SANS GSEC in Amsterdam and can vouch for their training. You actually use your computer during Class unlike CISSP course which are pure book learning.
They give you a pile of documentation to read and practice with.
I do agree with the people who say get a spare box install linux and mess with it. You have to destroy the village in order to save it. Install it, break it, install it again...but when you are done you will have the strongest castle in the swamp:
http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/grail-14.htm
Climate Change is just a plot conceived by the New World Order and other globalists to take your guns and your testicles.
They are coming soon in our UN Black Helicopters to enforce your carbon emmission reductions.
I for one welcome the Black Helicopter pilot overlords.
Slashdot Mirror
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
The education standard on slashdot is falling.
What other manufacturer provides quick fixes for a decade old OS that is now three versions out of date? Red Hat and CentOS https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ http://wiki.centos.org/
I work for the UN. They are too incompetent to run the Internet.
I am a Debian user. I have experimented with Slackware. Most recently I installed Slackware 13.37. But after a month I went back to Debian simply because I prefer to work with apt-get. I am personally more efficient with Debian. Having said that Slackware has been around for a long time. People who use it don't just like it...they love it. Slackware must be doing something right. My personal experience is that the community support on IRC #slackware is outstanding and must be one of the reasons for the distro's longevity. So Congratulations to the Slackware community!
# apt-get install debian-handbook Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package debian-handbook
Hmmm. The pdf from the web page is already downloaded.
I believe it is only in Sid at the moment.
The Google Maps of Cambodia are useless here because they use Street Names and everybody here uses Street Numbers. Google have been told zillions of times but they obviously don't give a crap. I guess the market is too small for them to bother. Open Street Map is much more usable here.
What operating system does Al Qaeda use? What has been found on captured computers in the past? Windows, Linux, Mac?
Asian women also avoid key white women characteristics such as having a mid life crisis, divorce, and hobbies that donâ(TM)t involve taking care of the children or cooking for their husband. See for more info http://tinyurl.com/3r8x6o
I suspect you are right. See John Robb's stuff about "Super Empowered Individuals" http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2007/01/catastrophic_su.html
The answer is: "It depends." Nobody is putting a gun to your head to make you use free or non-free software. Most people will be pragmatic and use what works. "It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice". Others will take a purist approach. They may choose do do without the convience of certain programs. Neither approach is wrong. Does the software do what you want it to do? If your needs are fully met by free software great!
Just don't tell my Khmer wife!
How can I get a divorce from my wife and a brand new Asian girlfriend?
The most important thing to clone from Ubuntu are the forums and the Wiki and #ubuntu on irc. It became easy to ask questions and find answers without snide RTFM's abounding as is often the case on #debian. The other community that I find very polite is #slackware. That could be why they are still around today.
It's not Debian. Debian has had the ability to fully encrypt the root partition during installation since Sarge I think. Etch for sure. Ubuntu can do it too with the alternate installer. OpenSuse and Slackware have excellent docs on how to get / file encryption. Disk Encryption is essential for laptops and removable media in 2008. If Solaris wants to get adopted by government and financial sectors for use on laptops it will need to have some form of serious disk encryption. To be fair to the OpenSolaris people there are two teams working on encryption solutions but I think they lag well behind Linux or even Windows (Truecrypt) solutions. Two in development projects: Crypto in the lofi(7D) driver (a bit like dm-crypt on Linux or FileVault on MacOS X): http://opensolaris.org/os/project/loficc/ due to integrate soon. and ZFS Crypto which is still in development but due to integrate this summer. http://opensolaris.org/os/project/zfs-crypto/ However neither of these provide for an encrypted root filesystem as they aren't full disk encryption solutions. However with ZFS Crypto all of your home directory and other datasets (filesystems) with sensitive data can be encrypted. I for one welcome my Sun Microsystems overlords...actually I am glad to see another alternative to Windows becoming more accessible to the masses. I have my copy in bittorrent now ready to install in my [Sun Microsystems] Virtualbox 1.6.0 Congratulations to the Project Indiana Team!
Ubuntu Hardy Heron using the alternative installer allows full disk encryption with a passphrase during the install. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=873&num=1 Debian has had this since Etch I think. Slackware and SUSE also have a good set of docs on how to set up full disk encrytion. Not as easy as Ubuntu or Debian though. Actually it is more a fully encrypted root partition. The /boot needs to unencrypted to function. You can use an integrity checker to ensure this is not tampered with.
There is no excuse in 2008 for not using encryption.
And use a real operating system. Not Windows!
What about "Project Copy Linux"? http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/07/29/sun_projectindiana_oscon/
Corporate Propaganda says Americans don't care but... "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." Joseph Goebbels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie
...they sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
While you are at it (using your logic) the Romans massacred people all over Europe. So let us declare war on Italy. Blaming the entire Estonian nation, most of whom were not even born at the time, is irrational. Individuals commit war crimes not countries. And individuals who commit war crimes, particularly the senior leaders, should be tried.
I did SANS GSEC in Amsterdam and can vouch for their training. You actually use your computer during Class unlike CISSP course which are pure book learning. They give you a pile of documentation to read and practice with. I do agree with the people who say get a spare box install linux and mess with it. You have to destroy the village in order to save it. Install it, break it, install it again...but when you are done you will have the strongest castle in the swamp: http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/grail-14.htm
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/lpi/101.ht ml?S_TACT=105AGX45&S_CMP=LPLINUX
and
www.lpi.org
Try contoling the Metadata with a tool that even Microsoft provides for free. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA011400341 033.aspx
It can happen with .pdf as well:
http://news.com.com/U.S.+military+security+defeate d+by+copy+and+paste/2100-1002_3-5694982.html
Not sure about .odf
http://www.reliefweb.int/ See Professional Resources > Jobs
But you might want to read this page first:
http://ngosecurity.googlepages.com/
You buy Linux....I just get my mate Mark mail it to me for free: https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
Climate Change is just a plot conceived by the New World Order and other globalists to take your guns and your testicles. They are coming soon in our UN Black Helicopters to enforce your carbon emmission reductions. I for one welcome the Black Helicopter pilot overlords.