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Firefox works on Wayland now . So, unless you have redefined Firefox as a non-major browser, "is far from certain whether any of the major browsers will ever run on Wayland" is fla…

The FSF's interpretation is valid for GPLv2 and LGPLv2 as well, since the line "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein…

I don't think they'll change it anytime soon. I don't like it at all, and I agree that it is almost dangerous, even though I sort of understand the rationale seeing how non-technic…

Yes, according to the config file `src/daemon/daemon.conf.in` in the tarball.

It is a rebuttal to the implication that the possibility of the community electing some nefarious personality should be considered valid ground for denying said community any repre…

On the other hand we should expect nothing but good things from esteemed GPL violators such as Allwinner and WMWare, right? /s EDIT: I guess I should qualify the statement wrt WMWa…

No, the bug is in the kernel keyring facility, so if I'm not mistaken compiling with CONFIG_KEYS=n option should protect you (I haven't tested though). As for the /proc/kallsyms, I…

That only hides the pid directories of others users, and indeed on my system remounting /proc with hidepid=2 I'm still able to see the same values for kallsyms. Maybe your kernel i…

According the lwn comments it should be sufficient (and the post by perception-point suggests that it would at least make things more difficult), but I haven't the hardware to test…

If you have SMAP, i.e. an Haswell or newer Intel CPU, you should not be vulnerable, so that could be an explanation.

While the fact that since last fall grsecurity only ships the stable branch of the patchset for sponsors (because of persistent trademarks violations) doesn't help integration in s…

As others said, using a kernel with the Grsecurity patchset would prevent the issue (I believe the configuration of SElinux on Android should be sufficient, but the default config …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_millionaires

Both in the case of Office 365 and that of Azure they are selling you their cashcow (office and windows), only in a software as service fashion. Moreover, neither is opensource, un…

Fair enough, I don't judge the Surface machines as something bad per se, I simply don't pine for a world were the only decent hardware to run Windows is made by MS (which the too o…

That may be true, but there is clearly an argument against that premium manifacturer being the already giant corporation that licenses the os run on 95% of those machines. If it we…

According to the developer the bug was present only in the 1.1 series, which is just a few months old (it was pre-released at debconf 2015, and is not in Jessie if i'm not mistaken…

It works fine under konsole 15.08.

Windows will not boot in UEFI mode if the partition table is of MBR kind. One must manually enable the BIOS legacy mode, hence the comment on modern Windows systems (younger than 4…

Problem is, as an mp3 (flac really) player the interface is terrible: for running or biking you really want a player that is small and has physical buttons to click, or alternative…

Yes and no: the part clarifying what happens when one does not comply with the GPL is "objectively better"¹, since it clarifies a legal situation otherwise subject to multiple inte…

We really don't need yet another license. What's more, all those changes would probably result in a new license that is again incompatible with GPLv2. The fact is that the "anti-ti…

People running Nexuses have root on their smartphone, even better, they can replace the copy of android with a modified one (which is really what you want, not people running aroun…

Ubuntu Mate has a PPC version which seems to be pretty popular. Unfortunately the G5 power consumption and fan noise (unless you have the liquid-cooled version, maybe) are high, so…

A more apt reference would probably be Rorschach from Watchmen. At least this sort of stuff should deter Hollywood from any plan of a RMS biopic, so all in all it may be good thing…