Comment Re:Old version = old news (Score 1) 231
That's not right - Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04 have OpenSSH 5.1. Ubuntu 8.04 has 4.7.
Comment Re:Jaunty (Score 2, Informative) 620
The "Switch User" option isn't necessary, as the menu acts as a user switcher itself - it lists the local users, and you can click on one of them to start or change to that user's session.
Comment Re:Alternate CD (Score 1) 269
The desktop CD has never contained the actual package files, so it has never been possible to upgrade from it.
Comment Re:What kernel is in this release? (Score 1) 180
Jaunty has always used 2.6.28 - never 2.6.29.
Comment Re:Marketing MIA (Score 1) 625
We already do have an 'apt' protocol, and have had for several releases now. Clicking a link to 'apt:somepackage' will ask if you want to install 'somepackage'.
Comment Re:Tutorial on Using apt-p2p to Upgrade (Score 1) 482
Ubiquity (the desktop CD installer) will leave an existing /home on / if you tell it not to format, so there's little reinstallation benefit to having a separate partition.
Submission + - Student finds 5000-year-old chewing gum (kierikki.fi)
itsthebin writes: "Sarah Pickin, 23, found the lump of birch bark tar — complete with neolithic tooth prints — on a dig in Finland.
Ms Pickin's tutor at the University of Derby, Professor Trevor Brown, said birch bark tar contained phenols, which are antiseptic compounds.
"It is generally believed that neolithic people found that by chewing this stuff if they had gum infections it helped to treat the condition. It's particularly significant because well-defined tooth imprints were found on the gum which Sarah discovered," he said.
Ms Pickin was on a volunteer program at the Kierikki Centre on the west coast of Finland when she made the find.
It is not for sale on Ebay yet :-)"
Submission + - RIAA Adds 23 Colleges to Hit List, Avoids Harvard
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The RIAA has added 23 new colleges and universities to its hit list, but omitted Harvard, apparently afraid of the reaction it's likely to get there, having been told by 2 Harvard law professors to take a hike."
Submission + - Will pervasive multithreading make a comeback? (google.com)
exigentsky writes: "Having looked at BeOS technology, it is clear that like NeXTSTEP, it was ahead of its time. Most remarkable to me is the incredible responsiveness of the whole OS. On relatively slow hardware, BeOS could run eight movies simultaneously while still being responsive in all of its GUI controls and launching programs almost instantaneously. Today, more than ten years after BeOS's introduction, its legendary responsiveness is still unmatched. There is simply no other OS (major) that has pervasive multithreading from the lowest level up (requiring no programmer tricks). Is it likely, or at least possible that future versions of Windows or OS X could become pervasively multithreaded without creating an entirely new OS?"
Submission + - Dangerous Java flaw threatens virtually everything
Marc Nathoni writes: Google's Security team has discovered vulnerabilities in the Sun Java Runtime Environment that threatens the security of all platforms, browsers and even mobile devices.
"This is as bad as it gets," said Chris Gatford, a security expert from penetration testing firm Pure Hacking.
"It's a pretty significant weakness, which will have a considerable impact if the exploit codes come to fruition quickly. It could affect a lot of organizations and users," Gatford told ZDNet Australia.
Submission + - Linux 2.6.22 Kernel Released (kerneltrap.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Linux creator Linus Torvalds announced the official release of the 2.6.22 kernel, "it's out there now (or at least in the process of mirroring out — if you don't see everything, give it a bit of time)." The previous stable kernel, 2.6.21, was released a little over two months ago on April 25'th. New features in the 2.6.22 kernel include a SLUB allocator which replaced the slab allocator, a new wireless stack, a new firewire stack, and support for the Blackfin architecture. Source level changes can be tracked via the gitweb interface to Linus' kernel tree.
Submission + - Fix what slows Apache down by optimizing PHP
An anonymous reader writes: As the load on an application increases, the bottlenecks in the underlying infrastructure become more apparent in the form of slow response to user requests. This article discusses many of the server configuration items that can make or break an application's performance and focuses on steps you can take to optimize Apache and PHP.
Submission + - NYSE moves to Linux
An anonymous reader writes: Even the old mainframe strongholds, the financial markets, are moving away from big iron. The New York Stock Exchange is one of them, as it's leaving the mainframe for AIX and Linux. They're doing it to save money; it seems that transactions are going to cost half as much on Unix and Linux as they did on the mainframe.
