PCI Compliance Scans are becoming more and more common as more credit card processors require them. Most of the scans use a tool like Nessus and the scan results often contain many false positives. For example, the scans do not take into account practices such as back porting security fixes. Distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux have very clear policies regarding backports.
Dell Inspiron 1420N: No Sound On Fedora 8
Posted by Pizon
on April 15, 2008
Recently I decided to install Fedora 8 on my laptop. Originally the laptop came with Ubuntu but the hand holding that distro offers was starting to get in my way and it makes more sense for my job to have a Redhat-based distro on my laptop. The installation was quick and painless but the sound card did not work after applying updates. A lot of Googling turned up a lot of frustrated people. Apparently the Intel ICH8 chipset has some issues with the kernel drivers included with Fedora 8. I ended up having to break one of my cardinal rules of Linux to get sound working but the steps required to get the sound card working aren’t that involved.
