[CS-FSLUG] 'Extremely severe' flaw in Opera web browser

[Ed Hurst]

On Wed, 05 May 2010 10:00:55 -0500, Cia Watson <ciamarie at my180.net> wrote:

> I didn't want to install too many Fedora packages, and I didn't want to
> take the time to figure out the whole 'build from source' option -- so
> on that install I'm using Thunderbird for mail instead of Claws. It's
> an interesting change...

They say RHEL 6 is compatible, but hardly identical with Fedora 12. As in  
the past, I have preferred to stay as close to the upstream as possible.  
That said, I dug through building from SRPMs everything I've wanted so  
far. I managed to stumble my way through trading the  
'gstreamer-plugins-bad-free' for the more expansive  
'gstreamer-plugins-bad' and rebuild Totem to accommodate the differences.  
Dozens of SPRMs from several sources. I am by no means an RPM hacker, but  
I did modify a few SPEC files and got what I wanted. Now, Totem plays  
everything I throw at it. I wrote it up in terse form:

    http://soulkiln.org/RHEL6-MediaBuild.txt

I also built Sword and Xiphos from SRPMs, which was quite simple compared  
to multimedia stuff. Just learn how to satisfy the dependencies and it all  
works just fine. Now I have this big pile of RPMs I can share, but I'm not  
smart enough to setup a Yum repository.

I notice on this machine of mine, RHEL 6 is about the fastest thing I've  
ever run so far. I really don't like the poor support for my Radeon HD  
4350, but I can live with that until X.org and ATI get their acts  
together. Meanwhile, fonts have never looked this good on this hardware,  
and that includes any *buntu, XP and Win7 with all the nifty tweaks each  
offers.

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Ed Hurst
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