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Comments: 1 +-   Fedora 12's package installation policy tightened-> on Friday November 20, @12:26AM AdamWill

Submitted by AdamWill on Friday November 20, @12:26AM
redhat
AdamWill writes "In response to Slashdot's earlier story about Fedora 12's controversial package installation authentication policy, the package maintainers have agreed that the controversial policy will be tightened to require root authentication for trusted package installation. Please see the official announcement and the development mailing list post for more details."
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Comments: 7 +-   Linus Torvalds suggested for Nobel Peace Prize-> on Thursday November 19, @10:52PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19, @10:52PM
linux
An anonymous reader writes "I'm as much of a fanboy as anyone else, but I've never thought of anything in computing as being worth a Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently, there are those who take global collaboration seriously, though..."
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+-   Local users get to play root on Fedora-> on Wednesday November 18, @02:59PM eqisow

Submitted by eqisow on Wednesday November 18, @02:59PM
security
eqisow writes "The new default policy for Fedora 12 allows local, unprivileged users to install signed packaged without root access. This change apparently went mostly unnoticed until after the Fedora 12 GA release, at which point it sparked a mailing list thread that is, as of this writing, over 100 posts long.

The arguments for both sides can be seen on Red Hat's bugzilla as well as on the mailing list, but what does the Slashdot community think? Was this a good move or should it be reverted? Should there have been more discussion on the subject sooner?"
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Comments: 1 +-   Fedora 12 released-> on Tuesday November 17, @11:38AM AdamWill

Submitted by AdamWill on Tuesday November 17, @11:38AM
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AdamWill writes "The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 12 today. With all the latest open source software and major improvements to graphics support, networking, virtualization and more, Fedora 12 is one of the most exciting releases so far. You can download it here. There's a one-page guide to the new release for those in a hurry. The full release announcement has details on the major features, and the release notes contain comprehensive information on changes in this new release. Known issues are documented on the common bugs page."
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Comments: 3 +-   Linux contractor fired for using Firefox on Linux-> on Tuesday November 17, @12:31AM mariushm

Submitted by mariushm on Tuesday November 17, @12:31AM
security
mariushm writes "A US Linux technician received a contract proposal from a big company (with three letters in its name) to patch more than 1000 Linux servers with some proprietary SAN access software. After about a month of grueling process of approval, he came to the very last step...a simple competency test to be taken online. He was given the URL and instructed to complete the test and notify the Project Manager at the computer company with three letters in their name when finished.
However, upon accessing the website, he found out the page would not render at all and upon an inquiry he received the answer from the Project Manager (of the three letter company)that the website will not run on Linux using Firefox and that he will receive a laptop with Windows and VPN software to complete the test.
While waiting for the laptop, he sent an email asking the website administrators for the reason why the page does not load on Firefox/Linux and the company with three letters in the name promptly fired him for "refusing to use Windows and Internet Explorer" and blackballed him from future projects."
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