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The Straw That Broke The Penguin's Hat
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| I'm going to create my own distro.
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| Those who favour "convenience" and "simplicity" over security and Freedom,
| need not apply.
|
| Like nearly every other distro out there,
| mine will be initially based off another. In
| this case, I'm going to start with the
| source RPMS from Fedora 12, rebuilt to be
| i386 compatible, and then it'll slowly
| diverge from there. Ultimately it will use
| Alexandre Oliva's linux-libre, the blob-free
| version of Linux, with the longer-term goal
| of possibly even moving to the GNU Hurd, at
| which point I'll take great pleasure it
| telling Linus "Microsoft hatred is a
| disease" Torvalds where to shove "his"
| kernel, along with those other things he
| endorses, like Tivoization. It'll have a
| strict "No Microsoft" policy, both in terms
| of the actual technology, and the paradigms
| which define the operating system and
| software.
|
| Other features which will be depreciated
| include SELinux and PulseAudio, the bane of
| nearly every Fedora user's existence. These
| technologies are "solutions" to entirely
| fictitious problems, and the former in
| particular is closely related to the same
| issues surrounding the PackageKit scandal.
| If unprivileged users are never given
| elevated privileges in the first place, then
| there simply isn't any need for mandatory
| access controls - standard UNIX security
| methods are sufficient.
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http://slated.org/the_straw_that_broke_the_penguins_hat
Softpedia Linux Weekly, Christmas Special
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| Summary:
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Softpedia-Linux-Weekly-Issue-76-130316.shtml
Recent:
Choosing a Desktop Linux Distro, Part 2: Installation and Support
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| "Linux is flexible, and applications and even
| actual distributions are more easily UNinstalled,"
| 451 Group's Lyman pointed out. "So, if a user
| doesn't much care for one version, there are
| plenty of others to try."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/68454.html?wlc=1256393432
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