Ted Gould: Kinda like Fedora

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November 19th, 2009 by dondavanzo


I admit it, I’m a little jealous of the Fedora feature of being able to install signed packages without a password prompt. I set out to get close on Ubuntu. The way that you edit the PolicyKit practices towards package install is to edit the file /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/. If you look at the action for “Install packages” you can change <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active> [...]

Maia Kozheva: UI Rant: Computer Janitor

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November 19th, 2009 by dondavanzo


I won’t deny that the Ubuntu repository has plenty of software with badly designed UIs. Not much of it, however, makes it into main, and I’m even more puzzled to see something like this in the default installation — developed by Canonical, no less. Look at it. Look at it. UIs like this usually come from applications whose developers wrote [...]

Aaron Toponce: Debian – The Universal Operating System

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November 17th, 2009 by dondavanzo


The other day, I blogged about the Debian Installer, and I stated that I find it to be one of the most flexible and possibly most powerful operating system installers. Well, continuing with a series of posts on Debian, I want to mention how flexible the operating system is by itself, from installing to running. The claim from the Debian [...]

Aaron Toponce: Debian – The Universal Operating System

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November 17th, 2009 by dondavanzo


The other day, I blogged about the Debian Installer, and I stated that I find it to be one of the most flexible and possibly most powerful operating system installers. Well, continuing with a series of posts on Debian, I want to mention how flexible the operating system is by itself, from installing to running. The claim from the Debian [...]

Aaron Toponce: Debian – The Universal Operating System

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November 17th, 2009 by dondavanzo


The other day, I blogged about the Debian Installer, and I stated that I find it to be one of the most flexible and possibly most powerful operating system installers. Well, continuing with a series of posts on Debian, I want to mention how flexible the operating system is by itself, from installing to running. The claim from the Debian [...]