The Fedora Core 2 Test 2 installer lacks a check-box at the bottom of the package selection window that was provided with previous Red Hat 9 and Fedora Core 1 releases. This check-box enables access to a second package selection window that provides fine-grained control over selection of individual packages. (The check-box also disappears from the otherwise identical Red Hat 9 and Fedora Core 1 install/remove package window.) So there's no obvious way to install, say, the Festival speech server or the EmacSpeak audio desktop (or the beta release of Gnome Speech). The FC2 Test 2 install/remove package program also lacks RPM file association that would allow users to click to install RPM packages from a Fedora CD. Curiously though, the VNC server, which permits remote control of my computer keeps getting installed even if all network servers are deselected. Since FC2 Test 2 is a test of the NSA's security enhanced Linux, a user would have to recompile the kernel to get rid SELinux. If enabled, the default security policy appears to disable such things as the Apache web server and administrative acess to the var directory, where Apache's web is located, using the Mozilla web browser. Since the updatedb command won't run, performance of the find command is suspect and help doesn't work, though the man command does. Disabling SELinux enables Apache and the updatedb command, but help still doesn't work and, though executing the rpm command works, it produces incredibly verbose complaints from the, supposedly disabled, SELinux extensions. I'm like a guy from Missouri, not entirely convinced. Linux was already pretty secure. Then IPSec was built into the 2.6 Linux kernel. But we should remember that SELinux comes from the NSA, whose mandate isn't to provide everyone with unassailable communications security, but to listen to everything, all the time, everywhere. Now here's Fedora, with the widest distribution yet seen for Linux 2.6, but the kernel must be recompiled to enable IPSec and disable SELinux. All in all, it kind of makes you go hmmm. -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
