first it was BMW.
After come AUDI,
Then Subaru,
and finally Bentley…
(Found originally here)
‘Bull!’
a killer analysis of the latest Oracle linux move from someone who crafted Oracle’s original linux strategy. And before you think that Dave Dargo is a Red Hat fanboy i should remind you that Ingres is betting a good chunk of it’s future on… yes, a rpath’s conary based database appliance.
regarding a nvidia graphics driver exploit
Earlier today it become public that there is a security hole, and an exploit to it, in some versions of the (closed source) nvidia graphics driver. Users of Foresight Linux, with an up to date system are **not** affected, since this is an issue that is fixed (according to nvidia) in the version of the drivers we currently ship. Users of earlier versions of the driver (and which for one reason or another can ‘t or wont wish to upgrade should edit they ‘re xorg.conf (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and disable RenderAccel by changing the corresponding line to … Option “RenderAccel” “False”. That will ‘close’ the issue.
so you want more…
… and you’re already running Foresight Linux 0.9.8.2, you have an Nvidia card, you saw the AIGLX bit in the announcement and… Well, i have news for you 
Just do…
sudo conary update beryl-core=@fl:1-devel[bootstrap]
sudo conary update beryl=@fl:1-devel
and after that start beryl by calling beryl-manager from the comand line. This will work out of the boxes for Nvidia users, and users of intel oss drivers. Users of drivers not yet AIGLX aware (such the ati ones) will need to install Xgl as before (see my previous posts, bellow) , beeing that beryl may or not work well and stable for them. Once things settle down beryl will be a standard option in fl:1, for now it sits in our testing branch fl:1-devel. have fun!
P.S. For reference take a look at my xorg.conf file.
Announcing Foresight Linux 0.9.8.2
Following our 0.9.8 release we’re proud to announce that Foresight Linux 0.9.8.2 is out. Release highlights are the usual bug fixes and package updates, including the latest stable gnome (2.16.1) package set and an the latest Google Earth release, a revamped Xorg subsystem and a new default kernel (2.16.18). Also of note is the fact that this is the first release done after the lauch of our issue tracker. Regarding Xorg, now AIGLX is activated by default and two new Use flags were introduced to smoothen the install of ati and nvidia drivers, which conflicted with the default Mesa and xorg-server installs (see FL-4 for details). From now on ati users should update by issuing ’sudo conary update group-dist[ati]‘ and nvidia users by doing ‘sudo conary update group-dist[nvidia]‘, from the command line. This all all is done transparently with no more file overwrites. Users of pure opensource Xorg drivers stay current, as allways, by doing an ‘conary update group-dist‘. The default kernel is from now on smp capable, continuing to work smoothly in uniprocessor/single core boxes. As allways feedback is welcome.
I can’t finish without nothing that this release would haven ‘t been possible without all the help, feedback and support from our incredible user community. For all of you – a big thanks!
P.S. New Install images (CD, DVD and VMWare) are being cooked as i write this. They will be available in the standard place in the next 12 hours.