Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
I’m one dapper dude!
Dapper \Dap”per\, a. [OE. daper; prob. fr. D. dapper brave,
valiant; akin to G. tapfer brave, OHG. taphar heavy, weighty,
OSlav. dobr[u^] good, Russ. dobrui. Cf. {Deft}.]
Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or
appearance; lively.
[1913 Webster]
The first time I fired-up Linux, it was Red Hat 7. Both Linux and I have come a long [...]
YaST, you fat pig!
Well, last night I finally installed Suse 10.1. It’s the same as ever for me – there are things I love and things I hate. Foremost in the “things I hate” is YaST. I wanted to update some software and found these options under the “Software” section in YaST:
10 options is way [...]
Fedora Core 5 Final
“Fedora Core 5 Final” torrents from the official site have been posted! It’ll be interesting to see if the ISOs are exactly the same as those posted by unofficial sites yesterday (not that I really care).
file: bordeaux-binary-i386
size: 3,296,658,079 (3.1 GB)
dest: /home/gabe/store/bordeaux-binary-i386
progress:______________________________________
status: finishing in 18:04:55 (0.4%)
speed: 41.9 KB/s down – 140.2 KB/s up
totals: 13.2 MB down [...]
GNOME 2.14 Desktop
Everyone knows that the best Free/free desktop is GNOME :) But did you know that GNOME 2.14 just came out?
Get a high-level preview of all the goodness.
Admin password readable by any user in “Breezy” (Ubuntu)
D’oh! Bug #34606†says it all! This is bad, bad, bad. Wow, what an oversite!
I’m currently running Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-386 on my single user desktop. Let’s see how I do…
gabe@office:~$ sudo grep MyPassword /var/log/* -R
/var/log/debian-installer/cdebconf/questions.dat:Value: MyPassword
/var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat:Value: MyPassword
Ouch, Ouch, Ouch! The admin’s password in PLAIN TEXT! Oh, this is embarrassing for Ubuntu! It [...]
Utah Linux User Speaks Out About SUSE
I came across this link when googling for “utah linux” – result #6. They are things I said last year at about this same time.
I’m 90% sure I’ll be a SuSE user in the next year or two.
It’s been a year and I’m still a Fedora Core user. I’m pretty stoked about FC5. If [...]
Compiz and Xgl from Novell
Novell has been hard at work. The they have released their Xgl graphics subsystem and the ‘Compiz’ compositing manager and it’s source code which they have been developing in-house. I sure hope that the X.org guys are able to plug ‘n’ chug with it. The site has some good videos but the *sweet* vids [...]
Novell open sources major Linux security program
Novell open sources a major Linux security program and shows the world that it “gets it”. I’m not a Novell fan boy but, they have shown time and time again that they are serious about the spirit of Open Source. I don’t follow the earnings of the company but I hope these small moves don’t [...]