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Submission + - UK magazine pulled from US store after a feature on 'hacking' (tuxradar.com) 1

Submitted by super_rancid on Thursday May 03, 2012 @06:52AM

super_rancid writes: UK-based Linux Format magazine was pulled from Barnes and Noble bookstores in the US after featuring an article called 'Learn to Hack'. They used 'hack' in the populist security sense, rather than the traditional sense, and the feature — which they put online — was used to illustrate how poor your server's security is likely to be by breaking into it.

Submission + - UK MP gives government line on snoopers' charter (tuxradar.com)

Submitted by super_rancid on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @09:34AM

super_rancid writes: A UK MP has responded to a request to give the official government position on the proposed 'snoopers' charter', where it admits that it can now only access "some 75% of the total communications data generated in this country, compared with 90% in 2006" and that, "Unlike the previous Government's proposals, there will be no government database and the data recorded will be strictly limited and regulated and will be destroyed after a year."

Submission + - An Open Letter to Mark Shuttleworth (tuxradar.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:01PM

An anonymous reader writes: Many users are up in arms about a new feature in Ubuntu 9.04 that uses a pop-under window to nag users into installing patches even for non-critical updates. TuxRadar has summed up the general feeling in an open letter to Mark Shuttleworth, saying, "I don't think this will come as a huge surprise to you, Mark, but most people don't like their computer to be annoying. We understand the need to encourage people to install security updates, but getting on their nerves just doesn't seem like the smart solution. It doesn't seem like the Ubuntu solution." Without bugging users, how can Linux cope with end-user security as it grows in popularity?

Submission + - Windows 7 vs Vista vs Linux Benchmarks (tuxradar.com)

Submitted by MegaMac on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @08:14AM

MegaMac writes: So Windows 7 is supposed to be screaming fast, right? Anecdotal accounts report it booting quicker and feeling snappier than Vista, but the proof is in stats. TuxRadar has benchmarked Windows 7 against Vista and Ubuntu Linux, comparing install time, disk space usage, boot speeds and filesystem performance. The graphs also show how the sparkly ext4 filesystem compares against its older brother.

The State of UK Broadband — Not So Fast 279

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @06:29AM from the but-you-have-actual-competition dept.

Barence writes "The deplorable speed of British broadband connections has been revealed in the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics, which show that 42.3% of broadband connections are slower than 2Mb/sec. More worryingly, the ONS statistics are based on the connection's headline speed, not actual throughput, which means that many more British broadband connections are effectively below the 2Mb/sec barrier. Better still, a separate report issued yesterday by Ofcom revealed that the majority of broadband users had no idea about the speed of their connection anyway."

Submission + - The Most-Wanted Linux Software

Submitted by Susie on Friday April 20, 2007 @06:43AM

Susie writes: Photoshop, AutoCAD and iTunes are three of the most-demanded programs for the Linux desktop, but what else does the community want? Linux Format is running Make it with Mono, a voting system to determine what type of programs the Linux world needs. Get voting — the number-one entry on May 2nd will be written in Mono and released as open source!

Submission + - RHEL 5 - from the new, more open Red Hat

Submitted by Susie D on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @12:03PM

Susie D writes: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is released today, and Linux Format has an in-depth first look (with screenshots aplenty). With RHEL 5, Red Hat aims to become even more 'open', by using a shorter and clearer SLA, improving community involvement through its Knowledge Base, and prodiving the new Red Hat Exchange. But what you really want to know is, yes, it does include XGL for fancy 3D desktop effects...

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