[16]Fedora Core 5: A review from an ex-maintainer

I've been putting this off long enough; finally I got around to upgrading my network to FC5, specifically, 1x Server, 2x Workstations and a laptop (one workstation, this one, still to do).

Review

The Good

Fedora Core has always been a slickly presented distro, and even though they do make some odd choices occasionally, it features pretty much everything you could want out the box, proprietary stuff excluded (but that's what Fedora Extras is for).

Trojan That Deletes Illegal MP3s And Movies? - So there is a Trojan out there that actively searches and destroys illegal MP3 and movies and even competing malware prgrams from the infected users system. That's the bad news. The good news is your PC will run much faster with all those MP3s, DVD rips and malware removed from your system. Hell, if you took that stuff out of some of ya'll computers, all you'd be left with is a bare OS...maybe not even that you warez monkeys!

FarStone Technology will introduce what it claims is the first-ever live system and data recovery application available for desktop Linux in mid-April. RestoreIT will restore a user's data -- or an entire system -- that has been damaged or lost due to computer errors, viruses, or other common mishaps, spokesman Bob Menzies told DesktopLinux.com on Wednesday.

By Ryan Singel
11:00 AM Apr, 12, 2006

AT&T is seeking the return of technical documents presented in a lawsuit that allegedly detail how the telecom giant helped the government set up a massive internet wiretap operation in its San Francisco facilities.

In papers filed late Monday, AT&T argued that confidential technical documents provided by an ex-AT&T technician to the Electronic Frontier Foundation shouldn't be used as evidence in the case and should be returned.

Ground-based astronomy could be impossible in 40 years because of pollution from aircraft exhaust trails and climate change, an expert says.

Aircraft condensation trails - known as contrails - can dissipate, becoming indistinguishable from other clouds.

If trends in cheap air travel continue, says Professor Gerry Gilmore, the era of ground astronomy may come to an end much earlier than most had predicted.