More press coverage about Ubuntu’s excellent security record, taking out the top score in SearchOpenSource.com’s comparison. Not long ago, LWN gave it top billing in their analysis.
The bottom line is that even this informal analysis shows there are definitely differences in how fast Linux distributions develop and issue security patches. Security managers should keep that […]
Monthly Archives: July 2006
Ubuntu: Seriously Secure
July 28, 2006 – 20:36
“Evil” is a bad place to start the healing
July 28, 2006 – 08:12
Zaheer, I continue to defend freedom of speech on Planet GNOME, in spite of many complaints now and in the past about various blogs — including my own, on occasions. Your posts about the situation between Israel and Lebanon are very serious examples of the (sometimes pretty crazy) things people complain to me about. But they’re yours, […]
QoTD: Dave Miller
July 28, 2006 – 08:11
“[Reworking the core tuple ID used for netfilter lookups] would be a radical departure from the present netfilter mechanisms, and would require redoing the userspace tools. Rusty says the world be damned and let’s do it if necessary! This guy is quite inspirational — Dave Miller, on the status of netchannels
Suggestions for suitable punishments we […]
O’Reilly Radar vs. School Girls
July 27, 2006 – 09:07
I managed to limit myself to a ten minute speech about Ubuntu at the O’Reilly Radar Executive Briefing yesterday, as part of Tim’s Spotlight: Who’s on the O’Reilly Open Source Radar? short presentation session. I received quite a bit of positive feedback about it, and indeed, the word awesome was uttered once or twice… But […]
links for 2006-07-15
July 16, 2006 – 09:19
ZFS on Linux… via FUSE
Thanks to the Google Summer of Code, Ricardo Correia is hacking up a storm bringing ZFS to Linux… via FUSE! Fearless. ZFS and Linux — two great tastes that taste great together!
(tags: linux solaris zfs fuse)
Swimming upstream
July 15, 2006 – 08:48
Mark has said that when the opportunity to fulfill almost any dream became available to him, his first thought was “go to space”… quickly followed by the realisation that if he didn’t make it happen, he’d spend the rest of his life wondering what could have been, or worse, hating himself for letting it pass […]
QoTD: Stormy Peters
July 15, 2006 – 05:56
“I get asked a lot how I got involved in open source and why I’m such a big fan. While the why I’m such a big fan has a long history in how I view software, technology and society, the how I got involved in open source and so quickly discovered what a great community […]
QoTD: Dave Rosenberg
July 14, 2006 – 11:56
“Forgive my inane ramblings but as we were driving home from downtown SF my wife and I spotted a crew of gentlemen wearing jeans and sportcoats and she applied the phrase ‘the business mullet’ for the combo. […] When I am at OSCON I will be taking count of the guilty parties.” — Dave Rosenberg and moongirl
Shit! […]
Norman Walsh needs our love
July 14, 2006 – 10:29
Norman Walsh — esteemed godfather of Docbook — gets very cranky with GNOME, ditches it for a while, but ultimately returns… because it just feels right.
I can understand his frustration — gnome-screensaver has been flicking the hate switches for a lot of our traditional, tech-savvy users. I’m hearing about it a lot. It’s a great example of GNOME shipping software a […]
Congratulations, Stormy!
July 12, 2006 – 11:31
Congratulations from myself and the GNOME team — I hope you have a wonderful time in the next few months, years, and beyond! There are lots of babies on the way in GNOME and other FLOSS communities too… Seems we’re all growing up. Eeek! Nice to see things like Parent Hacks turning up as a result. […]
