The Register
11.19.09
Fedora 12 - it's a horse, not a camel
Design by committee makes good
By Scott Gilbertson
The Fedora Project has announced the latest version of its popular open
source Linux distribution. Nicknamed Constantine
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/20/redhat_fedora_12/,
Fedora users are revolting against a change introduced in the latest
version of the operating system that allows the installation of
thousands of software titles without an administrative password.
Critics say the move diminishes the security of machines running the
open-source OS by giving
Now that an update has been announced for packagekit, will this update be
applied to official ISOs or will users be expected to apply the update
themselves or disable this behavior if they don't have the machine connected
to the net?
Regards,
Amit
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:54 AM, susmit
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 07:24:44AM +0530, susmit shannigrahi wrote:
Fedora users are revolting against a change introduced in the latest
version of the operating system that allows the installation of
thousands of software titles without an administrative password.
Critics say the move
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 08:42:25AM +0400, Amit Caleechurn wrote:
Now that an update has been announced for packagekit, will this update be
applied to official ISOs or will users be expected to apply the update
themselves or disable this behavior if they don't have the machine
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 23:43 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 07:24:44AM +0530, susmit shannigrahi wrote:
Fedora users are revolting against a change introduced in the latest
version of the operating system that allows the installation of
thousands of software titles
I think the update in progress needs to be ..uhm.. propagated more.
Not a lot of folks (I also mean users who only heard of the drama via
dents etc and nothing more) are aware of it.
+1 - thanks for getting this started, Ankur. Things are moving fast
around here, and anything we can do to help
