Linked by James Smyth on Tue 21st Oct 2003 17:51 UTC
MandrakeSoft has recently released the latest version of their desktop operating system. Mandrake Linux 9.2 Download Edition is available on their web site across three ISO files for the Club members. The first disk is about 650megs and the following two are ~700.
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i am using mandrake 9.2 and i have only one port that
is not stealthed but it is closed.
sorry to disappoint u.
Who is disapointed? I think that's great that 9.2 fixed that security problem. I was simply pointing out that few if any reviewers address the security settings of the distro's they review, and that they probably should.
LILO is still a problem that needs to be addressed however.I use partition images as a primary install back up for the systems I build. By putting LILO in the boot sector the part image works even if its tranfered to a new (replacement)hard drive. If its put into the master boot record, its adds a level of complexity I don't want to pass on to the end user.
To my knowledge, no Linux Distro's make provisions for a complete system back up of the newly installed, and more importantly, completely set up with the end users preferences set, to a hard drive partition or CDROM. By doing this, the end user can screw around with the settings with confidence that they can get back to the original system in less than ten minutes.