From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:08:09 +0300 From: Michael Shigorin To: community@altlinux.ru Message-ID: <20050430130809.GJ11813@osdn.org.ua> Mail-Followup-To: community@altlinux.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: [Comm] [JT] ututo-e / gentoo X-BeenThere: community@altlinux.ru X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: community@altlinux.ru List-Id: Mailing list for ALT Linux users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 13:08:13 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: Hi! Вот ещё один образец того, что порой откладывается в библиотечку. Обычно при этом проводится сопоставление -- "а насколько это относится к нам?". ----------------------------------------------------------------- Despite the time the installation process spent optimizing the system for the processor, performance seemed much the same regardless of whether I used the 486, 686, or Athlon XP-optimized CD images. I found a larger performance gain when I reduced the number of desktops from four to one. [...] Ututo-e security standards are mixed. On the positive side, the distribution uses multiple system accounts. That is, in addition to the usual root account, Ututo-e uses a number of specialized user accounts, each with a name that suits its specific purpose -- for example, daemon, cron, and portage. With the use of each system account narrowly defined, crackers cannot break into the system by obtaining a single password. User groups are defined with similar narrowness, so much so that if you create additional everyday accounts, you need to add them to additional groups before they have the same access as the ututo user account created automatically during installation. On the negative side, Ututo-e tells you the system's three basic account passwords at the start of installation, but makes no effort to remind users to change them as soon as possible. Since these passwords are "enter," "enter," and a blank password, this is a major gap in security. Other basic lapses in security include the automounting of diskettes, CDs, and DVDs; a graphical log-in for the root account; and no enabling of the firewall during installation. The distribution would also benefit from following some of the suggestions in the Gentoo Security Guide, such as placing directories to which users will write on a separate partition, using grpquota and usrquote settings to define drive mounting in /etc/fstab, and installing cracklib to prevent easily-guessable passwords. Many of these security weaknesses, of course, have become standard in modern distributions. However, they stand out more in Ututo-e more than usual because of the obvious thought that Ututo-e's developers put into the multiple system accounts. Having taken this advanced precaution, they seem to have overlooked the elementary ones. [...] In addition, the English version has problems of its own. The English is often non-idiomatic, with such menus as "Configuring the distribution of its keyboard" and "Menu of handling of partitions." Phrases like these can usually be interpreted without much effort, but the awkwardness lessens the professionalism of the distribution. A far more annoying problem in the English version is the series of keyboard mapping errors you receive when GNOME is starting up. These seem to point to larger problems, because, if any attempt is made to change the mapping, the system hangs and reverts to Spanish on rebooting. Even worse, the English version points by default to a Spanish package repository, and I could find no mention of an English one in the operating system or on the distro's web site. http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/04/21/195224&from=rss Ututo is useless... (Score:0) By Anonymous Reader on 2005.04.29 6:46 (#111592) Ututo-e is the worst thing to have happened to the Free software community in Argentina. The people creating ututo-e are a bunch of lunatics that will let the opportunity to move a whole school or city to GNU/Linux slip, if the city insist that the kids have flash or other non-free software installed. Besides this, they discouraged potential linux users from trying a real working linux distribution such as Suse or Mandrake. Instead, they recommend their non-working piece of shit and leave the potential user with a bad taste in the mouth. If they had a working product, I'd be more than happy to recommend them. But they don't.The distribution sucks and the only thing that has brought them any notorierity is Stallman's shallow endorsement. Why is it shallow? Because he doesn't use it himself. Yet the first thing these guys tell you is that Ututo is the one and only true linux distribution because RMS said so, when the thing doesn't even work. And to those that may misconstrue my words, I respect RMS and all the work he is done. He is a personal hero of mine. But alieanting lots of people by subscribing something that is closer to Slackware 1994 than a real linux distribution or operating sytem in 2005 is bollocks. Later. -- ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/