Greetings Elizabeth,
I appreciate the official detailed explanation and stated course correction.
Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
If you downloaded or opened a file named “Xubuntu-Safe-Download.zip”
from the Xubuntu downloads page during this period, you should assume
it was malicious. We strongly recommend scanning your computer with a
trusted antivirus or anti-malware solution and deleting the file
immediately.
Excellent. Crystal clear.
Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
The biggest announcement is that we’ve decided to switch to Hugo, a
static site generator which will completely eliminate the type of
attack vector taken advantage of. This migration to a static site
generator has actually been in the works for some time as our reliance
upon the dynamic features of WordPress naturally reduced, but this
situation compelled the team to get it completed. We will launch soon!
Something like 21 years ago, I developed a engine which could both run on the
server dynamically producing web pages, and also could be used to generate
static HTML and upload that to the server.
We ended up never using the dynamic application on a public facing webserver, and exclusively leveraged my "hack" to produce static HTML pages. (Internally we developed against the real dynamic
server.) It was built on a Windows + Apache + DB2 + ooRexx stack. I named it The Nehemiah Project. 21 years ago, I literally got my wife back from spending long hours coding websites by hand in a text
editor! Thus, I am well experienced with static website site generation. Bravo! Good decision!
Example site built by The Nehemiah Project.
http://www.lfsf.org/
I am looking forward to assisting with the soon upcoming LTS release.... 26.04.
Each LTS release.... it seems to me I test in more and more of a silent vacuum.
Where does the Xubuntu community mingle?
Specific defects have gone ridiculously unresolved... Examples:
Xubuntu shutdown prompt is missing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1944519
"synaptic: ‘Lock Version’ is broken; use dpkg hold"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/synaptic/+bug/42178
Quote from that defect log:
I find it very odd to see the defect I just found moving from Xubuntu 16.04 to
Xubuntu 20.04.2 and Synaptic not respecting locked package versions already
reported as of 2006-04-29!
Synaptic, for us, had always respected when we would put a lock on a certain
package. That is no longer respected in 20.04.2.
These are just two defects that used to not exist, and once they did, they have
not gotten resolved.
Perhaps more word gets done at another site than the Xubuntu site? If so, please recommend the place the Xubuntu work team utilizes. I would like to contribute to testing Xubuntu 26.04 and hopefully
get some of these long standing defects put to rest for the release.
I am thankful,
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Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
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