Whee Mozilla 1.7 is available

And

Cert recommending the Mozilla browsers ? Interesting.... finally (sigh)

Oh, yeah, Firefox 0.9.1 too!  ¶ 1:41 AM 0 Comments

  Internet Explorer Users beware.. Owch..

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/download_ject.mspx

http://www.lurhq.com/berbew.html

http://www.us-cert.gov/current/current_activity.html#iis5  ¶ 6:30 AM 1 Comments

  Linuxfromscratch I found a nifty site called LinuxFromScratch. One can follow their guide to build a custom system.

I tried it out and it's nifty (with minor hitches related to needing a static libc on the host system).

So i've built my own little custom lfs system on a CD image, and made the CD bootable, with some tweaking.

And now I'm trying to think of what to do next... my ultimate goal is to build my own distribution to serve some specialized purposes.

The package manager situation bothers me... RPM seems inadequate for providing updates... Portage isn't as cool..

Perhaps I need a new kind of file to describe a RPM package as something that is to be downloaded... like storing the shell for all packages on a base system, but storing the data component as a separate thing,

so for instance a PAK could have an update-url...

Perhaps ports/portage is _really_ what I want, but it just doesn't seem to have the same coolness factor, and I like a lot of the conveniences RPM provides...

rpm -qf or --verify for instance



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