Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: [g...@pryzby.org: Ubuntu, Dash, Shuttleworth and privacy]

2013-02-20 Thread Lee Fisher
Anyway, we are free to choose what fit our requirements. True. Is there any formal academic research on the topic of distro stability/quality/security, with any listed attributes/requirements? On one hand, corporate control tends to spyware backdoors. On the other, volunteer control could

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: [g...@pryzby.org: Ubuntu, Dash, Shuttleworth and privacy]

2013-02-19 Thread Lee Fisher
If this sort of behaviour from Ubuntu continues, what I would suggest is that simply people start recommending other Linux distributions. Personally I'm a big Fedora fan: It has the same level of ease of use and features as Ubuntu and also a nice aesthetic and full SELinux security features

[liberationtech] Fwd: [b2g] open-source vs proprietary RIL stack

2012-10-15 Thread Lee Fisher
FYI, Mozilla clarifies policy on B2G RIL blobs. [The platform might become a handset option, someday, in some countries, starting with Latin America, AFAIK. Today you can dual-boot it on a few Android v4 phones.] https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/RIL

Re: [liberationtech] Need Wiki or Site for This List's Guidelines

2012-08-08 Thread Lee Fisher
On 8/8/12 1:47 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: I suggested that Douglas look for a widely-read and established Liberationtech-type wiki to host this information. Douglas is doing this to help out the community, and it would be nice to have a widely-read place to post the info, so it would have

Re: [liberationtech] UEFI and who controls your computer? Fedora 18 Linux to be cryptographically signed by Microsoft.

2012-06-03 Thread Lee Fisher
The UEFI specification itself does not require that there be any mechanism to disable this functionality. But I believe the NIST mandate for BIOS-secured systems does have this requirement. An alterantive to UEFI is Linux-based CoreBoot. It's free, whereas all UEFI implementations are