Miscellaneous Tech News
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@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Just got an email. StartCom is done at the beginning of 2018.
As you are surely aware, the browser makers distrusted StartCom around a year ago and therefore all the end entity certificates newly issued by StartCom are not trusted by default in browsers.
The browsers imposed some conditions in order for the certificates to be re-accepted. While StartCom believes that these conditions have been met, it appears there are still certain difficulties forthcoming. Considering this situation, the owners of StartCom have decided to terminate the company as a Certification Authority as mentioned in Startcom´s website.
StartCom will stop issuing new certificates starting from January 1st, 2018 and will provide only CRL and OCSP services for two more years.
StartCom would like to thank you for your support during this difficult time.
StartCom is contacting some other CAs to provide you with the certificates needed. In case you don´t want us to provide you an alternative, please, contact us at [email protected]
Please let us know if you need any further assistance with the transition process. We deeply apologize for any inconveniences that this may cause.
Couldn't happen to a better set of folks. Now if only they'd check the rest of them in the crazy list!
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@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Just got an email. StartCom is done at the beginning of 2018.
As you are surely aware, the browser makers distrusted StartCom around a year ago and therefore all the end entity certificates newly issued by StartCom are not trusted by default in browsers.
The browsers imposed some conditions in order for the certificates to be re-accepted. While StartCom believes that these conditions have been met, it appears there are still certain difficulties forthcoming. Considering this situation, the owners of StartCom have decided to terminate the company as a Certification Authority as mentioned in Startcom´s website.
StartCom will stop issuing new certificates starting from January 1st, 2018 and will provide only CRL and OCSP services for two more years.
StartCom would like to thank you for your support during this difficult time.
StartCom is contacting some other CAs to provide you with the certificates needed. In case you don´t want us to provide you an alternative, please, contact us at [email protected]
Please let us know if you need any further assistance with the transition process. We deeply apologize for any inconveniences that this may cause.
Got that email two days ago but I haven’t used them in 2 years
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Fedora 28 approved to get the update to PHP 7.2
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Ubiquity EdgeRouter 4 is out, not sure if it is "new" but I have not seen it before?
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@jt1001001 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Ubiquity EdgeRouter 4 is out, not sure if it is "new" but I have not seen it before?
https://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/edgemax/EdgeRouter_ER-4_DS.pdfIt has been in beta for something like 6 months or so.
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The big deal with the ER-4 and ER-6 is a new processor.
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Looks like beefed up ERL, with rack mount option.
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@marcinozga said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Looks like beefed up ERL, with rack mount option.
Pretty much what it is supposed to be. The refresh of the ERL and the ER-PoE
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When you look at the firmware ID info it is obvious.
In release order:
ERL/ERPOE - e100
ER8/ER8Pro - e200
ERX - e50
ER8XG - e1000
ER4/ER6 - e300 -
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-28-Improve-Initial-Setup
Looks like all Workstation installs will have no root password set by default. The initial user created by gnome-initial-setup will be added to the wheel group.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-28-Improve-Initial-Setup
Looks like all Workstation installs will have no root password set by default. The initial user created by gnome-initial-setup will be added to the wheel group.
That's basically what 27 does, but less elegantly.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-28-Improve-Initial-Setup
Looks like all Workstation installs will have no root password set by default. The initial user created by gnome-initial-setup will be added to the wheel group.
That's basically what 27 does, but less elegantly.
Damnit, I hate this about Ubuntu.
Why can I not use a root account and a user account?
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-28-Improve-Initial-Setup
Looks like all Workstation installs will have no root password set by default. The initial user created by gnome-initial-setup will be added to the wheel group.
That's basically what 27 does, but less elegantly.
Damnit, I hate this about Ubuntu.
Why can I not use a root account and a user account?
You should just be able to set the password after an install. It probably just locks the account since there isn't a password.
I never minded this because I never use the root account unless I switch to it with sudo. But I can see how if that's your normal workflow it would be annoying.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-28-Improve-Initial-Setup
Looks like all Workstation installs will have no root password set by default. The initial user created by gnome-initial-setup will be added to the wheel group.
That's basically what 27 does, but less elegantly.
Damnit, I hate this about Ubuntu.
Why can I not use a root account and a user account?
Only if you don't set during install. If you set root, there it is. If you skip it, it forces you to do something.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-28-Improve-Initial-Setup
Looks like all Workstation installs will have no root password set by default. The initial user created by gnome-initial-setup will be added to the wheel group.
That's basically what 27 does, but less elegantly.
Damnit, I hate this about Ubuntu.
Why can I not use a root account and a user account?
From https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReduceInitialSetupRedundancy under Root Account.
Having a root password is not useful for nontechnical users, and it is confusing to ask users to create multiple passwords.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-28-Improve-Initial-Setup
Looks like all Workstation installs will have no root password set by default. The initial user created by gnome-initial-setup will be added to the wheel group.
That's basically what 27 does, but less elegantly.
Damnit, I hate this about Ubuntu.
Why can I not use a root account and a user account?
From https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReduceInitialSetupRedundancy under Root Account.
Having a root password is not useful for nontechnical users, and it is confusing to ask users to create multiple passwords.
Security isn't useful for the masses.
