Ubuntu lost 1.8 million passwords, e-mails usernames was stolen.
Ubuntu used Vbuletin proprietary software but an older version.
So they don't have money to upgrade the forum to get atest security patch.
They would have used free software under gnu license and money which they ha
he spent with
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:25 AM, mikko.viinam...@students.turkuamk.fi wrote:
So, now the amazon guys know that I have searched that page using DDG *and*
I am a Trisquel user. Great.
File a bug. Seems to be a feature of the search plugins. [1]
Sort of, I don't think there's much that trisquel
This is really fishy, why would they use a proprietary forum software? They
got a dev-team after all. I recon it is much easier to pay one person from
the team to write a patch for an existing free program (if there really is
something important missing) than to accept the burden of
On 07/21/2013 11:15 PM, magicban...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe you need to have those lines in /etc/hosts (to edit with
administrative privileges);
::1thinkpadlocalhost6.localdomain6localhost6
127.0.1.1thinkpad
This worked. Thanks
German privacy laws are very likely just an illusion. After the NSA scandal
has been talked over in the German news and there were several talks between
the German Secretary of State and (if I'm not mistaken) Obama, the newest bit
of info is, that Germany was using a version of NSAs spying
I agree with the OP that the current situation is very unfortunate. Is there
any page where I can get .deb files of the current versionb of
iceweasal-libre? Wouldn't it be a great idea just to include this package in
the repository if it's already available?
@Drewski: I found this site
Ask Ubuntu is proprietary also, uses Stack Overflow.
Ask Fedora uses Askbot (free software). [0][1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askbot
[1] http://askbot.org/doc/about.html?highlight=license
Hello,
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:08:50 +0200 (CEST)
gromo...@web.de wrote:
I agree with the OP that the current situation is very unfortunate. Is there
any page where I can get .deb files of the current versionb of
iceweasal-libre? Wouldn't it be a great idea just to include this package in
Also, I'm pretty sure that the German Ubuntu forum isn't run by Canonical.
Yeah but the people there don't care about free software just like canonical.
They're happy with steam now being included in their wonderful linux
distribution; even more proprietary software, wonderful.
And they're
I'm able to run non-abrowser firefoxes in this Trisquel 6. You can
manually choose your non-abrowser from the menus, type its name in the
'run' box, or set your default browser to that other, instead of abrowser.
On 07/21/2013 07:03 PM, afterma...@gmail.com wrote:
However, when you try to
There are alternatives like phpBB, but their latest release is almost a year
old and I'm not sure of how secure that one is.
Thanks man ;)
No problem with the linking, but, where is the link? I don't see it, so I
can't go to your blog. Sorry.
Also, as for films and music... Let me be clear, I don't see it as a wrong
or bad thing, to go to the cinema or rent a movie in DVD. But given my poor
financial situation,
Try changing your user-agent string.
Are there any free torrent trackers that can be self-hosted?
I know you can use that. However, since you still have the plugin installed,
I am not sure if you won't get flash super cookies anyway, even blocking
flash from playing.
And really, my intention was to try and use Abrowser only with HTML5, no
plugin intervention. So far, I was pretty happy
GNU IceCat (not available in Trisquel repositories but in a PPA) is also
lagging behind: the current packaged version is 17.0.1 whereas Firefox ESR is
17.0.7. I suspect the small maintenance teams (Trisquel, IceCat) have
difficulties following Firefox's rapid release cycle. After all, an
On 22/07/13 23:37, t3g wrote:
There are alternatives like phpBB, but their latest release is
almost a year old and I'm not sure of how secure that one is.
phpBB3 underwent a paid security audit years ago and no vulnerabilities
were found. Only minor security vulnerabilities have been found
GitHub has launched a new site which is a pretty good reference for software
licenses: http://choosealicense.com
Curious on your thoughts and impressions.
It uses the term open source, which is weak, encourages the use of version
2 of the GPL over version 3, and refers to the MIT License. I don't see a
real problem with it; the OSI website does all the same things (or at least I
think so), but I wouldn't refer to it as a resource for someone
1. They use the term open source because it is the more popular and
accepted term for the type of software with most developers. Thankfully their
license list contains licenses classified as free software as well except
for the No License option. They probably included it to answer questions
1. They use the term open source because they support that philosophy, not
free software. As such, it is irrelevant to me. I support free software, not
open source.
2. GPLv2 is not important for consideration for a new project. It's an old
license, and I think it's silly that some people
Version 3 of the GPL removes the tivotization of the GPL and creates issues
for some hardware vendors, so therefore moving the kernel to GPLv3 is not
possible at this time for the Linux kernel.
That can't be it, because he licenses Git as GPLv2-only, too. It's pretty
obvious he just doesn't like version 3 of the GPL.
Relicensing Linux is practically impossible. Because there were contribution
from tens (hundreds?) thousands of developers and no copyright assignment,
there are as many copyright holders. Each of them should explicitly agree to
any relicensing.
But, yes, Linux Torvalds himself said he
I'm actually curious about this topic regarding the GPL and hardware. Are
they talking about firmware on a device or more in line software that runs on
a smart TV that may have its own applications?
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