lordievader | Good morning. | 08:46 |
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BluesKaj | Howdy all | 11:14 |
lotuspsychje | good afternoon to all | 11:42 |
lordievader | Hey lotuspsychje, how are you doing? | 11:43 |
lotuspsychje | lordievader: hello, great im fine | 11:43 |
lotuspsychje | lordievader: just joined #ubuntu-hardened channel about ubuntu's security and exploits | 11:44 |
cfhowlett | sounds ... nsfw-ish | 11:44 |
lordievader | I see. | 11:44 |
lotuspsychje | cfhowlett: well i wanted to know how come so many exploits are being patched lately for ubuntu | 11:44 |
lotuspsychje | so this channel takes care of it | 11:45 |
lordievader | lotuspsychje: Do you run a hardend kernel? | 11:45 |
lotuspsychje | lordievader: no | 11:46 |
lotuspsychje | lordievader: this looks interesting to get involved: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/GettingInvolved | 11:49 |
lotuspsychje | BluesKaj: fternoon mate :p | 11:54 |
BluesKaj | Hey lotuspsychje | 11:54 |
lordievader | lotuspsychje: Go for it ;) | 11:59 |
lotuspsychje | lordievader: just added myself to security mailinglist | 11:59 |
lotuspsychje | cfhowlett: cant find any link about nvidia driver removal either | 12:01 |
cfhowlett | lotuspsychje, lemme look | 12:01 |
lotuspsychje | too many askbuntu results :p | 12:02 |
lotuspsychje | cfhowlett: but the opensource drivers still avalaible for lts right? | 12:02 |
cfhowlett | Yeah, opensource no problem. just the proprietary was pulled. very unusual | 12:02 |
lotuspsychje | yeah, and for LTS oO | 12:03 |
lotuspsychje | cfhowlett: its time linux starts taking over from win and mac, and stop this hardware boycot | 12:19 |
lotuspsychje | i hear less computers will be sold, because windows10 will be a free upgrade | 12:19 |
cfhowlett | lotuspsychje, well THIS year will be ... the year of the linux desktop! | 12:20 |
lotuspsychje | yeah | 12:20 |
lotuspsychje | good news for ubuntu, selling pc's with ubuntu as default then :p | 12:20 |
lotuspsychje | crazy how much distro's come out | 12:21 |
lotuspsychje | http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Linux-Distributions/ | 12:21 |
cfhowlett | windows10 free but I would be you still need to upgrade hardware for it to work. that's why SO many computers here in China are still on WinXP | 12:23 |
lotuspsychje | true | 12:23 |
lotuspsychje | cfhowlett: and with lower hardware, you can run linux fine | 12:24 |
cfhowlett | indeed! | 12:24 |
lotuspsychje | i read a school in spain have converted the whole school with ubuntu | 12:24 |
lotuspsychje | cfhowlett: http://itsfoss.com/spanish-school-ditches-windows-ubuntu/ | 12:25 |
cfhowlett | I see a few linux adoptions in government, schools and libraries | 12:25 |
lotuspsychje | saves a lot of $$$$$$ | 12:25 |
lotuspsychje | re | 17:21 |
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