Things I like about Slackware

06/17/2008  
Relevance: 6.47
Here's what I like about Slackware: In the default installation, just about everything works ... easy-to-use console utilities ... a bunch of window managers ... long-term support ... slapt-get ... three major Web browsers ... great projects derived from Slackware ... default fonts that look better than the default fonts in Debian ... and an extremely fast way to run KDE.
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Kubuntu 8.10'Intrepid Ibex' Beta Screenshots Tour

10/24/2008  
Relevance: 5.97
In less than a week the new Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex should be out. I took these screenshots using a Kubuntu Intrepid Beta installation after performing a full dist-upgrade, at 1280x1024, with the nVIDIA 173 driver installed. I left all the settings in applications default, but I had to make fonts smaller and resize windows (in Konqueror for example), because they didn't look very well as default. The default theme used is Oxygen.
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Wanted: New Default K3b Theme for 1.0

08/25/2006  
Relevance: 5.86
K3b 1.0 is in sight and with it I would like to introduce a new default theme. Not because I don't like the current ones, but I just want K3b 1.0 to look different so that people will see the difference, not only feel it.
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Novell Dogged by Delisting, Default Issues

09/24/2006  
Relevance: 5.83
Novell revealed this week that it has received notification of possible delisting from the Nasdaq stock exchange for delaying reporting of its financial results for the latest fiscal quarter. The firm also said it had received a default notice on a bond with its lender Wells Fargo. The company is appealing the Nasdaq notification and has denied the merit of Wells Fargo's default action.
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Ubuntu Reverts Video Driver Stance

02/14/2007  
Relevance: 5.75
Moments ago hitting the ubuntu-announce-list is word that the upcoming 7.04"Feisty Fawn" release will not include the closed-source ATI and NVIDIA display drivers by default. There was much controversy behind this decision of whether to include the ATI and NVIDIA binary blobs and enable them by default; so that its users can immediately benefit from Composite and desktop effects. Like existing releases, the proprietary video drivers will be easily available through their repositories, but they will NOT be activated by default.
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Ubuntu should reconsider

11/13/2006  
Relevance: 5.67
Unfortunately, Ubuntu is becoming more and more of a disappointment lately. First they start shipping non-free software by default, then the edgy upgrade turns into a disaster and now I read about plans for including more non-free software and a 3D desktop by default in feisty (the next Ubuntu after edgy). To be honest, ever since I've seen the Feisty Fawn announcement I've been wondering what does the focus on"multimedia enablement and desktop effects" imply, the basic suspicion being will it include more non-free software by default?
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Simplify system security with the Uncomplicated Firewall

10/02/2008  
Relevance: 5.61
The Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW) is a new tool from Ubuntu whose goal is to make configuration of the built-in Linux packet filter less complicated and more secure for novice users. You must run UFW commands as root, so in Ubuntu, you must preface them with the sudo command. With UFW, enabling and disabling packet filtering is a simple matter of issuing the sudo ufw enable and sudo ufw disable commands. You set the default policy for filtering packets by running the sudo ufw default command and passing the allow or deny argument, depending on what you want to achieve. If you issue the sudo ufw default allow command, all incoming packets will be allowed by default, creating a very unsecure packet filter but giving you the broadest range of allowed services. The command sudo ufw default deny will block all incoming packets, requiring that you allow specific services to pass the packet filter.
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Insecure by Default

10/11/2007  
Relevance: 5.50
Guess what, I can walk up to your Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, Debian, etc desktop installation and take complete control over it without needing a single password. Thats right, root access simply by sitting down at your computer. Why is it nearly every single distro by default leaves this gaping security hole open?
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SELinux vs. OpenBSD's Default Security

09/26/2007  
Relevance: 5.48
A thread on the OpenBSD-misc mailing list compared the security of SELinux in the 2.6 Linux kernel to what's available in OpenBSD. The general opinion was that SELinux and its policy language are too complex, leading Damien Miller to note,"every medium to large Linux deployment that I am aware off has switched SELinux off. Once you stray from the default configurations that the system distributors ship with, the default policies no longer work and things start to break." Ted Unangst summarized,"the problem with security by policy is that the policy is always wrong."
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Open Source, Firefox and New Search Options Emerge

10/20/2007  
Relevance: 5.26
We often take the ability to choose our default Firefox search engine for granted. By default, it's set to Google, and for most people, this is just fine. But what about queries where a typical search engine is not cutting it?
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