Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Dec 2006 11:38 UTC
In 2002, both KDE and GNOME released their last major revisions; KDE released KDE 3.0 on 3rd April, while GNOME followed shortly after with GNOME 2.0 on 27th June. For the Linux desktop, therefore, 2002 was an important year. Since then, we have continiously been fed point releases which added bits of functionaility and speed improvements, but no major revision has yet seen the light of day. What's going on?
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2006-08-02
It is making use of intel's hardware buffer overflow protection, It will not allow unsigned drivers to load into the system (XP allowed user override)
I like control of my system and if I want to override something I don't want the OS telling me no. Besides, I believe the real reason for not allowing unsigned drivers and kernel patches is due to DRM. If you could easily load a hacked video driver then I bet HDCP wouldn't last to long.