This post documents my testing results for the Desktop Linux distro Linux Mint. I performed the same testing on the following distros: \...
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Does anybody know about a Linux distro that enforces strong firewall rules (that’s one of the control points of that linux distro security assessment) by default? I mean other than Tails which I expect does it. RFI vuln, such as log4shell, rely on outgoing connections. A linux distro with a strict firewall by default would have to be purposely poked to let such queries out. Sounds interesting to me.
Why no post in Linux Mint community.
MOD COMMENT: To clarify, !linux@lemmy.ml does not have restrictions on distro specific content. Although I personally would encourage users to post or crosspost in more specialised communities if for no other reason than to help those communities get more traffic, it’s by no means mandatory. In fact, I usually encourage people to cross post to more than one relevant community, we have a cross post button and automatic identification and clustering of crossposts for that reason.
Also: I’m not removing any comments for now. But I will remind everyone that being civil and respectful are official rules on this instance.
I did not know that there is a Linux Mint community. Thank you for pointing that out to me.
My thoughts as soon as I read it. Not sure why you got downvoted for suggesting to post this in the proper community.
Really off-topic, but i love your profile pic.
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Because XCLI and seb want to defend their position here, instead of admitting they are wrong and put it into correct communities they down-vote instead.
If everyone now starts posts Distro specific articles into Linux, we can close other Communities now and make a mess out of Linux here.
IMHO Distro specific reviews belong into their own communities, they also should get a chance to get news.
I’m willing to give seb the benefit of the doubt here, as it’s entirely possible that seb is unaware of the Mint community, since only a handful of distributions have their own communities. News about distributions without communities does tend to get lumped here.
I posted that link in my company chat, where some do use Mint but most don’t (mix of Ubuntu, Manjaro, Fedora). Many were interested, and we have had a healthy discussion about some of the evaluation points, some of which we did find subjective and not very meaningful, and how Mint compared with the other distro evaluation linked at the top of the article.
Also, you are talking about firewall GUI, but it is not even one of the evaluation points. They just said that there was nothing about a firewall configuration in the configuration wizard.
However the evaluation points were:
Did you actually read the article? I doubt it. If you did, you would have noticed that the article does mention the methodology, and the results for other distros, with link to them if need be. Someone using yet another distro could be interested in that methodology to improve it or post a review about their favorite distro too. Maybe that is not “Linux enough” for you. In that case, you can move on.
Thank you.
So you generalize just because what some people said in another chat, okay. Not that we can use this anyway, since this is irrelevant to Lemmy. Also no one here talks about the review, we are talking about your intolerance accepting valid criticism. Instead of saying, oh hey, sorry I post it into the wrong community you pretend and defend your wrongdoing. The argument you bring here is also irrelevant to the subject since the original author intended that to be a Linux Mint Review. Nothing more. It is clearly stated in the first sentence of the article.
It was an example that was mentioned in the Review.
Weak argument. The article is still about Linux Mint and not intended for something else, you just want it to be for something else and generalize everything now to justify your weak and flawed logic.
It is a REVIEW ABOUT LINUX MINT. Again it is not intended to be a general statement about other Linxu distros. Please stop wrongfully interpret more into it, it does not work in other distros. Just because one statement maybe fights for other distros does it make it useful to share in the wrong community.
Accept that you are wrong, defending your wrong arguments makes it worse for you, the more you answer the easier it is to humiliate you.
I take note of your explicit intent of humiliating me.
I also take note of your condescending tone:
Yelling at people, threatening them, humiliating them is not a civil conduct, and hereby ask for your temporary ban for violation of rule 2.
Normal dude with backbone would just delete the post and post it into correct Community, I see that as humiliation of your character, as I said incapable of accepting feedback or see the points here.
If you cannot handle criticism, and call everything - not civil conduct - even after proving you wrong, then dunno what else to so other than this is an embarrassment to you.
Considering the post also mentions a generic evaluation methodology, and provides pointers to similar studies on other distros, the stuff may actually be of interest for some people interested in Linux. Maybe not you. I am ok with that. I actually don’t care.
BTW, when did you get your mod promotion? I don’t see it. Ok bye.
Based + I do care, that is why I point your mistake out.
Have a nice day Sir.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization
So your excuse for bullying people is that you got bullied too.
If a link is not to your liking, you can just skip it, or even downvote it. You don’t need to tell people what to do. Except of course if you are a mod and the post is against the rules. Then go ahead and thank you. But no.
Have a nice day as well
Second line:
Yeah this is when you actually never read the article. If you actually read it you would know that he only links other tests in the LINUX MINT test, which this is about.
Belongs into Linux Mint. Title also already suggest it. This is NOT a common Linux review which applies for all Distros.