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I noted that you have been covering firewalls in the #50 / January issue - would there be any chance of you covering antivirus options, particularly for home users, in the near future?
Ewan Slater, by email
We've covered virus prevention just recently, in Linux Magazine, Issue #46 / September, http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/46. In a mixed environment, i.e., with Windows and Linux together, virus prevention should be at the top of your security checklist. However, Linux alone is much less prone to virus attacks.
Fedora Core is not a community project, certainly not to the level described in your article "Fedora Core 3 Preview" (Linux Magazine, Issue 50 /January, p40). It's Red Hat - and Red Hat alone - who develops Fedora Core.
With regard to the review of Fedora Core 3, it is surprising that the author has not found any of the bugs/problems discovered by many other users on the public mailing-lists.
Michael Schwendt, Member of the Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
You are probably right that the wording "handed over development" is not appropriate. Red Hat states that Fedora is a "...Red Hat sponsored and community supported project." This question may depend on your definition of "support" and your definition of "community." Programmers such as Yum developer Seth Vidal are not working for Red Hat as far as we know.
We did mention some problems with Fedora Core 3. For instance, we mentioned issues with multimedia, the Gnome menu, and the Nvidia driver.
As the article notes, the review is based on Release Candidate 5, not on the final release, so it wouldn't have been fair to point out bugs that might be fixed in a final release. For this reason, some issues didn't find their way into the article.
I have the Knoppix collection DVD from Linux Magazine, Issue 47 / October, and it is great!
But one problem: What is the root password in GnuStep? Please send it to me because I cannot figure it out...
Kari Laine, by email
There's no root password. You can become superuser by typing in:
sudo su
You don't need a password to do so.
I have switched over to Suse Linux 9.1 in the last couple of months, and so far, I have been very pleased with the experience.
One thing that I have been frustrated by, however, is trying to find music download services that are Linux compatible. Would there be any chance of you doing an article on this in the near future?
Ewan Slater, by email
The large providers do not seem to show much interest in offering their music download services for the Linux platform.
Still, there's Apple iTunes, which is supported by the WINE-based Windows emulator, CrossOver Office, http://www.codeweavers.com. Though this is not the native Linux solution you're probably looking for, it would allow you to connect to the iTunes universe.
Just wait for the 4.1 version if you want to try this. This update should be available by the time you read this, saving you the teething problems of the previous 4.0 version.
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Hello from Novosibirsk!
I have received Issue #49 with Suse Linux Professional 9.1 as the first issue of my trial subscription.
Suse Linux has become an opening for me in my operation. At work, I used different Linux distributions (Mandrake 8.2, 9, 10, Red Hat 9.0, Fedora Core 2), but Suse has become my favorite!
I like the control panel YaST, which works perfectly, like the console sysinstall in FreeBSD. When I'm using Suse, I don't have any problems with installing new packages or customizing my system. And the most important thing is that I have no problems with upgrading packages anymore!
Thank you for the fine magazine and the excellent Suse distribution!
Stanislav Noskov, Novosibirsk, Russia