Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th Feb 2008 22:32 UTC
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, will announce on Feb. 6 that it's making Parallels Workstation for Linux available to users through the Ubuntu Partner Repository. Parallels, formerly SWSoft, the company behind the open-source virtualization program OpenVZ, is best known for its Parallels virtualization software that works with Mac OS X. Parallels Workstation for Linux won't let you run Mac OS X, but it will enable you to run multiple versions of Windows or Linux with Ubuntu.
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RE[3]: The middle man is good
by camo on Thu 7th Feb 2008 04:06
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At this point your are sounding like an irate fool. Canonical checks the software that goes into their repos.
Lol! this is so funny, yep, you know how it works, Canonical checks the software. What a great reply. Cleared everything up for me.
Some random guy can't just go into the repos and insert malware.
When did I say that someone could? The point was that there is no tools to check for spyware. So how exactly do they check.
And what about my firewall point?
RE[4]: The middle man is good
by lemur2 on Thu 7th Feb 2008 05:42
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Member since:2007-02-17
When did I say that someone could? The point was that there is no tools to check for spyware. So how exactly do they check.
http://www.wireshark.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireshark
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At this point your are sounding like an irate fool. Canonical checks the software that goes into their repos. Some random guy can't just go into the repos and insert malware. Do you go to Apple and ask them if the software on their downloads page is Malware? No, you assume that Apple isn't going to try to f--k their users on purpose. Eventhough some of the responses about the repos have been misguided, you have to realize that having one central source has many benefits, one of them includes being able to update your WHOLE machine without having five system tray icons asking you to update or having to go to each respective apps site to download the latest version, or having said app pummel you into updating with annoying pop-ups. That to me is the major draw of using something like apt-get. The same argument you had was said about ubufox.