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Submission + - Compasion of Firefox 3 and Firefox 2 (go2linux.org)

Submitted by

Artem Nosulchik

on Monday December 03, 2007 @05:27PM

Artem Nosulchik writes: "Firefox 3 beta was released rather long time ago but appropriate comparison of this beta with Firefox 2 was published only last week by one Linux guy..."

Peru Orders 260K OLPCs, Mexico to Get 50K 271

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 03, 2007 @05:19PM from the see-we're-not-scared dept.

eldavojohn writes "Perhaps in response to recent news that the lawsuit against the OLPC may be a scam, Peru's government has announced they want 260,000 OLPCs and a Mexican billionaire by the name of Carlos Slim has also asked for 50,000 that he wishes to distribute in Mexico. Things are looking good for the OLPC."

Submission + - Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 comparison [pic]

Submitted by

ggarron

on Monday December 03, 2007 @05:07PM

ggarron writes: "With the release of Firefox 3 Beta 1, a review of some of its features, comparing them side by side with Firefox 2 may help everybody realize what this version includes. These are not all the new features Firefox 3 have, but some nice ones. Check the comparison here"

Submission + - My Distro is Less Secure Than Yours!

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27, 2007 @09:58PM

An anonymous reader writes: OK. So well all know that Linux security is the greatest thing since openBSD. But in light of the growing popularity of VOTD package managers and 3rd party repositories, I wonder just how secure My Favorite Distribution is, if at all. Obviously there must be some degree of trust when using any software, even open source software. The fact is that millions of Linux users are just that, users. Not QA/security analysts, not developers, not even open source zealots, just users of good free software. But think about it.

Let's say we trust the kernel. (Duh!) Check.

Let's say we all trust upstream. High integrity developers with a small following of code inspectors. Secure enough servers. And md5sums for all. Check.

Let's say we trust the distribution engineering team. Canonical check. Novell (cough) check. Gentusers check. (just picking on a few.) But this of course, is limited to each distros blessed package sets and promised security upgrades.

And everyone knows that eventually a 3rd party repository becomes necessary (bear with me).

Is universe, multiverse, restricted safe? (debuntu crowd boos!) The docs say no security or real QA is performed on these.

Is packman, guru, etc safe? (flaming darts from chameleon lovers!) Some admins have actually said "there is *no* QA, just trust us... we package upstream as fast as we can."

Is portage safe? So pure. So devoid of real QA. I DARE you tweak your USE flags and not run into compatibility issues. How can security be any better? (Knock on my door... I'm getting nervous!)

Is rpm-repo-of-the-day safe? My CentOS is going down son! (Is that... Richard?)

No. Nothing is 100% safe. But it just seems like there is nothing stopping some serious harm to the community.

Oh yeah... one-click software install almost killed me! (Sorry opensuse... we were friends until that insecure mess started).

Please do not say... well if you are concerned just read the source. That is not practical. Any real software engineers can attest to this.

What about SELinux and Apparmor. When developers start releasing apparmor configs for their apps, I will feel better. And SE is, well, intense.

So. Why do you trust your distro + repos?

Submission + - The seven wonders of Linux World (go2linux.org)

Submitted by

ggarron

on Sunday November 04, 2007 @12:12AM

ggarron writes: "Check here the Seven wonders of the Linux World, these features or parts of Linux are some of the wonders of it, with out some of these wonders Linux may have never achieve what it have. Check the list here"

Submission + - How to install Looking Glass on Debian

Submitted by

ggarron

on Saturday November 03, 2007 @10:02PM

ggarron writes: "Looking Glass is a Java based Windows Manager for Linux, it is really easy to have it installed and running on Debian Etch. You will find on it great 3D effects at your Desktop. Read how to install Looking Glass on Debian"

Submission + - Beryl on Mandriva Spring 2007

Submitted by

Linux operating system

on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @02:34PM

Linux operating system writes: "Here is a screenshot guide to configure Beryl on the new Mandriva 2007 Spring, it is really easy to configure and there is no need to use any command line. Everything could be performed from the graphics interface. See it a Beryl on Mandriva"

Submission + - Impact in Ubuntu popularity of the Dell's decision

Submitted by

Linux operating system with Go2Linux

on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @06:21PM

Linux operating system with Go2Linux writes: "Considering the importance of Dell in the world's market share, It is number one in US, three in Japan and two in Europe, we should wait a good impact in Linux popularity and off course a real raise in Ubuntu popularity as well. We will start to have more applications and drivers for Linux as Dell suppliers start to see the potential! read more here"

Submission + - Why composite projects are important for Linux?

Submitted by

ggarron

on Saturday April 28, 2007 @03:22PM

ggarron writes: "Composite projects like Compiz and Beryl are doing its part in gaining users for Linux, which is really important in order to have more and more applications for us, using Linux, read the full story"

Submission + - Gmail insecure?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @06:26PM

An anonymous reader writes: Evidently there is a large hole in security at google. Gmail accounts that have similar names will copy each other on messages sent to one address. I have an address that goes firstname.lastname@gmail.com and someone else has firstnamelastname@gmail.com and I constantly recieve this other users messages. After making multiple attempts to contact google via the web based support submission system, nothing has changed with the accounts activities. Maybe this is isolated to my account and maybe not. In either case it represents a huge potential problem with the way gmail handles itself.

Submission + - OpenOffice 2.2 Released

Submitted by

xsspd2004

on Thursday March 29, 2007 @10:56PM

xsspd2004 writes: "http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3561829136.html

The OpenOffice.org Community on March 29 announced the release of a major upgrade to OpenOffice: version 2.2. The group claims that with upgrades to its word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and database software, the free office suite provides a real alternative to Microsoft's recently-released Office 2007 product."

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