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There are some specialised Linux sites. But I'm also for extending this site though....the way I see it wouldn't be a subsection but rather something that allows managing apps that are portable on different OSes w/out doubling descriptions and such. A bit like on sourceforge, where when you open som...

Used Avast, switched to Comodo, now using Microsoft Security Essentials. I have a feeling that none of them works 100%, and you still have to make an effort to update your browser, Java, Flash etc. For example, I had a couple of security incidents where Avast didn't catch malware that my kid introd...

webfork wrote:I think this thread over on InkScape might be informative.

According to this list, the only open source available is ClamWin and I would not use it.

You're linking to a 3-years old comparison that was fundamentally broken anyway.

Yeah, fine. I don't have any experience with FreeNAS yet (I want to have a closer look one day, but lack time), but plain FreeBSD is much more painful than PC-BSD and if sb.'s willing to take a look, I can totally recommend it.

Did you try PC-BSD? It's way easier than FreeBSD itself, about the level of consumer-oriented Linuces.

Old thread update: The apps have a much larger system footprint than if they're run natively This still seems far away for most users, but was an interesting development: I talked to one of the developers of PC-BSD and found out they've developed a system to avoid overlap: The operating system dyna...

> Idea2: Torrents for app storage for apps that have their entries kept up to date. Yes, that would be a legitimate and workable alternative that I could probably put together over a weekend. Good call. The only weakness is a single point of failure; if no one is seeding or someone can't if someone...

1. Maintenance nightmare. Quite costly Why? When I wrote this I thought about the need to install an app to get the checksums. But now I see that you meant checksums of the installer. Quite sensible and invalidates my remark above. 3. When a link is broken, users can search for the app name. It's f...

My thoughts: 1. Maintenance nightmare. Quite costly and will be frequently be outdated. 2. When it's outdated, searching for it will probably give only sites with an outdated version. 3. When a link is broken, users can search for the app name. It's far more straightforward, I guess that usually wil...

freakazoid wrote:Off-topic, but RonaldP, you might want to remove your home address from the forum for your own privacy reasons.

Who said it's not misinformation?
Maybe it's an address of some cafe found via the net.

Waterfox was compiled with Intel's C++ Compiler with the following optimisations: Intel's Math Library, SSE3, AVX for supported Intel processors, jemalloc, Profile-Guided Optimisation and the /O3 switch. Intel compiler is known to generate code that's crippled on non-Intel CPUs. There are fixes for...

I don't know what's up, but DDG results are sometimes totally off...

A very good post, but only when read together with a followup: http://evilbrainjono.net/blog?permalink=1097 This makes it clear that it's not that *updates* are bad, they are great, a developer tells you so. It's the way FF handled them what drew people away. There were 2 issues: 1. Updates were dow...

Indeed, very sad. And disappointing.

I have apt 4.2, but it appears that both sites that I used to put uploads to no longer work and a third that I tried is broken and doesn't accept the file.