Comments on: Pardus 2007.1 — Almost Perfect

By: kavani

kavani — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:09:02 +0000

When I first tried 2007.1, I was amazed that I could get my wifi to work right out of the box. Sure there were some hitches, at first, but Pardus has always been a stable, secure platform for me, even through beta testing 2007.2. I run into trouble trying to install drivers for peripherals and haven’t had much luck. All and all, I recommend Pardus for many people.

By: mamba2928

mamba2928 — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:00:30 +0000

Pardus developers are on the ATM over ppp ADSLcase. I raised it on their bugzilla together with a suggested solution. They even sent me a modified ppp.pisi that includes the pppoatm plugin. Read the bugzilla “speedtouch” at Pardus to follow the progress. I’ve provided a couple of command line python scripts which could be used to get either live CD or distro connected…

By: Stepelevich

Stepelevich — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:28:31 +0000

> I am using ADSL router which there is NAT

That hardly abolishes the necessity of providing a sane security architecture and timely security updates at all levels, I’m afraid (unless you seriously believe that Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu and Mandriva are all alarmists).

By: Erhan

Erhan — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:50:20 +0000

Hi Stepelevich,

>But how exactly do you know, Erhan?

I am not using Pardus as a server. I am using ADSL router which there is NAT, no one can connect to my computer or can do DNS attack.

By: Béranger

Béranger — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:51:23 +0000

Stepelevich, do you have an e-mail? You know mine, it’s info@ you-know-where.

I’m curious whether you think we should try Pardus 2007.2 (Beta) or not.

(It seems it’s a rolling release anyway.)

By: Stepelevich

Stepelevich — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:25:14 +0000

> I didn’t had a problem about securty yet.

But how exactly do you know, Erhan?

> Pardus team must have taken into consideration your comments I think.

When I last looked, Pardus’s security architecture was still a farce and the update arrangements for “non-critical” vulnerabilities “leisurely”.

Still, we can but live in hope.

By: Erhan

Erhan — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:33:03 +0000

I didn’t had a problem about securty yet. And I don’t think some hacker will attack me. Thanks for your securty reports. Pardus team must have taken into consideration your comments I think.

By: Stepelevich

Stepelevich — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:11:55 +0000

So security simply isn’t a consideration?

Thanks for your candour.