I find those commens particularly construtive in this context. This bug
was implemented with little thought to the fact that it opens a major
security hole in the os and prevents it from being used in a large
number of corporations (esentially any corporation with a decent
security policy).
The s
So it is your position that a "workaround" for a major security
vulnerablitiy is acceptable for a year. On that, I'm afraid I have to
disagree.
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No GUI option to disable face browser
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445123
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Bu
I have to say I'm becoming increasingly irritated with Ubuntu support
and starting to have serious doubts about it as a viable platform.
First a major security flaw was left unfixed for the entire 6 months of
Karmic, now a bug that essentially disables networking on a major
percentage of netbooks
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: sblim-cmpi-base
The sblim-cmpi-base is missing a library but installs symbolic links for
it:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root46 2010-03-03 15:17
libcmpiOSBase_OperatingSystemProvider.so ->
libcmpiOSBase_OperatingSystemProvider.so.0.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root
So those of us who use the desktop switcher because we want the normal
desktop when running with an external monitor and the netbook desktop
when we aren't are supposed to do what now?
Also, those of us who were in non-netbook mode when we upgraded to KK
are supposed to do what now? I wish I had
Actually I believe they intend for us to wait for 10.4 for a "new"
method. Between this and the massive security hole on the login screen,
I've had to move back to debian.
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Dropping desktop-switcher from karmic
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/443298
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I have confirmed this. I can duplicate it with code as simple as:
#include
int main() {
xercesc::XMLPlatformUtils::Initialize();
xercesc::XMLPlatformUtils::Terminate();
return 0;
}
==10048== 112 bytes in 2 blocks are still reachable in loss record 1 of 1
==10048==a
Public bug reported:
The desktop switcher was dropped last minute from Karmic, apparently
without any testing.
The ability to switch between desktop modes is now gone. This is a
major loss of functionality as I assume that many people use external
monitors with their netbooks. The UNR desktop i
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 463915 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463915
This is not a duplicate of 463915 which makes no mention of the fact
that upgrading from jaunty to karmic while in desktop mode permanently
disables UNR mode.
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No way to switch desktop modes
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