I think ALSA and pulseaudio is widely regarded as a big pile by a lot of audiophiles I know. They all tend to go for OSS4 (which is different...
Clearly debating to you will not accomplish anything since you are steadfast in what you think is correct. Picking apart comments and only using...
Firefox, Opera, links
So somebody discovered the vulnerability, but since a widespread use of it has not come its not a problem? I'm not following you at all. A...
I don't know about you, but I don't want any vulnerable software on my system. When something has a vulnerability, I want it fixed as quickly as...
I think PV stands for Patrick Volkerding, the creator and maintainer of Slackware, but I may be mistaken Cheers, Alphalutra1
This piqued my curiosity, could you give me some links for the articles that show its one of the worst firewalls? Not for application filtering...
Mutt. Highly configurable, available on essentially all platforms, can be integrated with GnuPG or OpenSSL, works great with mailing lists by...
I'm a bit confused on how does this increase security? Also, what does this do for security? What about really quick IP scanners which would...
I've messed with OpenSolaris very briefly, so I have little to comment on, but I have researched ZFS under FreeBSD quite a bit to determine...
KOffice is definitely smaller and leaner than open office, however, I don't know if it has as many features yet (I'm pretty sure it can't save...
All of them have java support. They all have flash support through open source alternatives like swfdec and gnash or adobe's flash player 7....
No. Cheers, Alphalutra1
I like things to be simple. Not necessary point and click on something and it magically works, but rather simple to configure via a text file....
Depends if its compiled into the kernel or as a module. For example, lets say I don't have any wireless cards in my computer, but my kernel has...
Although it's written for FreeBSD, all the reasons it gives are valid:...
Changing my mind slightly now: If I have to use linux for hardware support (such as suspending to RAM, proprietary nvidia driver), then: Crux...
I would get any distro I was comfortable with accessing, administrating, and configuring via the command line. I would then spend a day...
Using Arch 64 and openbsd 4.3-current on my laptop right now, except the openbsd will probably bceome slackware due to the fact that the nvidia...
Usually just irssi for accessing IRC, then bitlbee so I can use irssi to use AIM, though sometimes I am in the mood for a pretty gui so i use...
pf, fits my needs perfectly and offers raw performance and security that is hard to match free or not Cheers, Alphalutra1
Debian has kind of been on a crusade lately with free software and such, one example if the firefox and iceweasel incidents... If you use...
GAG is awesome may I just add. It handles all the BSDs, linux, and windows all from an extremely easy to use interface, though I think if you...
My swap is encrypted with blowfish (done by default) and that is it. When I get a laptop (in January) I will have /home fully encrypted and /tmp...
Too many. Pretty much all of the firewalls that existed before a year ago, then I settled down and saw the light so to speak. Cheers,...
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