www. S D Linux.com » Gnome http://www.sdlinux.com San Diego Linux News and Consulting Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:32:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Linux Security Updates http://www.sdlinux.com/2009/08/linux-security-updates/ http://www.sdlinux.com/2009/08/linux-security-updates/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:42:24 +0000 pacneil http://www.sdlinux.com/?p=151 Redhat announced kernel security and bug fix update multiple vulnerabilities (Also applies to CentOS). Also Fedora 10 & 11 have kernel updates for multiple vulnerabilities.

Updates to Firefox products have also cascaded into Fedora updates: blam (F10, F11), chmsee (F11), epiphany (F11), epiphany-extensions (F11), evolution-rss (F10, F11), firefox (F10, F11), galeon (F10, F11), gecko-sharp2 [...]]]> Redhat announced kernel security and bug fix update multiple vulnerabilities (Also applies to CentOS). Also Fedora 10 & 11 have kernel updates for multiple vulnerabilities.

Updates to Firefox products have also cascaded into Fedora updates: blam (F10, F11), chmsee (F11), epiphany (F11), epiphany-extensions (F11), evolution-rss (F10, F11), firefox (F10, F11), galeon (F10, F11), gecko-sharp2 (F10), gnome-python2-extras (F10, F11), gnome-web-photo (F10, F11), google-gadgets (F10, F11), hulahop (F11), kazehakase (F10, F11), Miro (F10, F11), mozvoikko (F10, F11), mugshot (F10), pcmanx-gtk2 (F10), perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed (F10, F11), ruby-gnome2 (F10, F11), seahorse-plugins (F11), xulrunner (F10, F11), and yelp (F10, F11).

Mandriva is providing security advisories for phpmyadmin and ruby.

OpenSuSE announced a security update of flash-player

Ubuntu announced security updates for firefox and xulrunner, nspr, nss, and bind 9 in the last week.

Debian anounced security updates for libmodplug, xml-security-c — design flaw, znc — directory traversal and a similar patch for bind9.

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]]> http://www.sdlinux.com/2009/08/linux-security-updates/feed/ 0 KDE to become default desktop environment for Open SuSE? http://www.sdlinux.com/2009/08/kde-to-become-default-desktop-environment-for-open-suse/ http://www.sdlinux.com/2009/08/kde-to-become-default-desktop-environment-for-open-suse/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:52:16 +0000 pacneil http://www.sdlinux.com/?p=143 There is an animated discussion on openFATE the Open SuSE feature tracking site. It has been proposed that OpenSuSE use KDE as the default setting for the desktop environment because:

It is confusing for new Linux users if they have to decide between KDE and GNOME during the installation. New users don´t know either of them. [...]]]> There is an animated discussion on openFATE the Open SuSE feature tracking site. It has been proposed that OpenSuSE use KDE as the default setting for the desktop environment because:

  • It is confusing for new Linux users if they have to decide between KDE and GNOME during the installation. New users don´t know either of them. So it is easier for beginners if there is a default. openSUSE has more KDE users than GNOME users so it is logical to make KDE the default.
  • Unique Selling Point. It is important for openSUSE to provide something that Ubuntu and Fedora don´t provide. It would be beneficial for openSUSE to be the only big KDE distribution.
  • This could attract more developers because KDE developers need a nice distribution to develop on.
  • This would increase the popularity of openSUSE in the KDE user community. The negative impact on the GNOME community is not that bad because Ubuntu is the most popular GNOME distribution.

If comments on this article are correct, and the majority of SuSE users prefer KDE, this is probably a good decision. What is most important is what appeals to your particular user base.

Personally, I prefer WindowMaker. I use SuSE for my servers, so the GUI is unimportant to me, I don’t install it. I don’t choose my distribution based upon what default windowing environment they choose.

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