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Comment Re: Is it good? (Score 1) 92

I'll add to that list: * Amazing control center for configuring just about anything with little effort to me. * Still let's me do configuration by hand when I want to * "Just works", as others have mentioned. I love how Mageia will do most of the maintenance work on my PC for me if I let it, but gives me the freedom to do that work on my own if I so choose. I've been Mageia since day one, and Mandrake/Mandriva before that. I've used a lot of other distros, but none have been as flexible while at the same time "just working" and letting me do "real" work.
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The Most Popular Linux Desktop Programs (zdnet.com) 228

The most recent Linux Questions poll results are in. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writing for ZDNet: LinuxQuestions, one of the largest internet Linux groups with 550,000 members, has just posted the results from its latest survey of desktop Linux users. In the always hotly-contested Linux desktop environment survey, the winner was the KDE Plasma Desktop. It was followed by the popular lightweight Xfce, Cinnamon, and GNOME. If you want to buy a computer with pre-installed Linux, the Linux Questions crew's favorite vendor by far was System76. Numerous other computer companies offer Linux on their PCs. These include both big names like Dell and dedicated small Linux shops such as ZaReason, Penguin Computing, and Emperor Linux. Many first choices weren't too surprising. For example, Linux users have long stayed loyal to the Firefox web browser, and they're still big fans. Firefox beat out Google Chrome by a five-to-one margin. And, as always, the VLC media player is far more popular than any other Linux media player. For email clients, Mozilla Thunderbird remains on top. That's a bit surprising given how Thunderbird's development has been stuck in neutral for some time now. When it comes to text editors, I was pleased to see vim -- my personal favorite -- win out over its perpetual rival, Emacs. In fact, nano and Kate both came ahead of Emacs.

Comment Re: The moderationg system needs an overhaul. (Score 1) 1839

Even a category called "slashvertisement" would probably be acceptable advertising if it's not done very often. Just don't try to deceive us into thinking an advertisement is a story. We usually see through it. On a different note: fix mobile logins. I can't seem to stay logged in, even though I have no problem with other sites, so it's not my browser. I read just about everyday (though have rarely posted as of late), but you couldn't tell because I'm rarely logged in on mobile.

Comment Re:Mageia (Score 1) 167

Yep, I still use it. I tried openSUSE over the weekend, and gave up. The package management wasn't as easy (I like the meta packages Mageia has like "task-printing" that just installs everything I need; openSUSE didn't seem to have those). The configuration tools have been biggest reason why I've stuck with Madrake/Mandriva/Mageia since about the summer of 2001. I've tried other distros, but I keep coming back.

Comment Re:Not a problem anyway (Score 1) 70

If one of the the biggest banks in my country pulls in background images from http, on there https secure account login page, this can't be a security risk, can it?

It can be, if the bank's using that as the "known image" so you "know" you're on the correct page. Phishing attacks would become easier if attackers could use this to figure out which images were associated with which user accounts.

Submission + - IBM Paying $1.5 Billion to Shed Its Chip Division (mashable.com)

helix2301 writes: IBM will pay $1.5 billion to Globalfoundries in order to shed its costly chip division. IBM will make payments to the chipmaker over three years, but it took a $4.7 billion charge for the third quarter when it reported earnings Monday. The company fell short of Wall Street profit expectations and revenue slid 4 percent, sending shares down 8 percent before the opening bell.

Submission + - Dr.Who to teach kids to code (theregister.co.uk)

DCFC writes: The BBC is releasing a game to help ten 8-11 year olds get into coding. Based on Dr.Who, it alternates between standard platform game and programming puzzles that introduce the ideas of sequence, loops, if..then, variables and a touch of event driven programming...and you get to program a Dalek to make him more powerful, apparently the BBC thinks upgrading psychopathic racist death machines is a good idea.

Submission + - European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 And Nobody is Sure Why (medium.com)

KentuckyFC writes: Europeans are living longer. But since 2003, they’ve suddenly enjoyed fewer years of healthy life. For example, in Italy between 1995 and 2003, life expectancy increased from 75 to 80.1 for men and from 81.8 to 85.3 for women. At the same time, the number of years of healthy life increased from 66.7 to 70.9 for men and from 70 to 74.4 for women. But since 2003, while life expectancy has increased further, the number of years of healthy living has plummeted to about 62 for both sexes. More worrying still is that demographers say the same trend has been repeated right across Europe. Only the UK, Denmark and the Netherlands appear to have escaped. That raises an obvious question: what happened in 2003? One idea is that the weather is to blame. In 2003, Europe experienced an extreme heat wave that led to some 80,000 extra deaths across the region. And the higher temperatures could also have triggered ill health, particularly in older people suffering from chronic diseases such as diabetes. That has important implications for governments who have to pay for health costs in Europe. And it raises the possibility that climate change is already having a bigger impact on human health than anyone imagined.

Submission + - Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million (arstechnica.com) 1

qwerdf writes: Newegg, an online retailer that has made a name for itself fighting the non-practicing patent holders sometimes called "patent trolls," sits on the losing end of a lawsuit tonight. An eight-person jury came back shortly after 7:00pm and found that the company infringed all four asserted claims of a patent owned by TQP Development, a company owned by patent enforcement expert Erich Spangenberg.

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