see http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2004-01 -16-011-26-OP-SW-BD-0019
Some how all the work that debian put in XFree 4.X to make it works on different archs qualified as
assembled and FreeBSD adoption of gcc qualified as designed/developped.
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"Traditionally (though not universally), Linux integrates support for a piece of hardware before BSD does. But when BSD integrates it, it works. It's solid. It's stable."
Basicly he's saying that FreeBSD core developpers are better/smarter that Linus/Alan/AndrewMorton and co.
And he claims to this article is all about facts.
The Morris worm was able to mutate acrost all hardware archs because it uploaded source code and compiled it. If there's a sufficiently large hole in a sufficiently distributed product (sendmail, bind, apache, etc.) a source code worm can wreck havoc on the entire UNIX world (Linux, Sun, Irix, whatever) regardless of hardware platform. Of course, a lack of compiler would put an end to that real fast.
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Or not... see tiny cc. The compiler comes in at a whopping 80k and it stands all on its own. Combine that with diet-libc and you've basically got the ability to spread a worm across any x86 based unix.
Aren't we talking about source code worm? There's not much a point of writing a x86-only unix source worm. Btw, your x86-unix only source worm would either:
always download from a single server which carries binary tinycc and binary dietlibc.
carry an extensive list of servers which which carries binary tinycc and binary dietlibc.
Since speed of propagation is the highest goal of any competent worm, neither of the above is acceptable for a worthy worm.
>> SHOW ME A SINGLE PROGRAM THAT IS SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE IT HAS REDUCED CONFIGURATION FUNCTIONALITY
GNU Emacs!
A lot of options now have to be set using custom. I know a lot of avg Emacs users start configuring emacs more and more since the introduction of custom.
while custom is not as flexible as lisp but it does help non lisper to configure emacs, thus make emacs (v20 and later) more successful.
I have a Asus P5A (super socket 7) board. The board just cost 5$ more than the same version without onboard sound. The sound is a ESS-Solo hooked on the PCI bus. I use ALSA for sound, it works great.
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Conclusion: on Debian, they like it lean and mean. terminal-ui rules; gnome1 is prefered to gnome2; KDE is barely tolerated.
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command. That's the ultimate command for regexp-based search-n-replace.
I thought I'm a Gnome fan until I realized I only use one gnome app (window manager doesn't count): gnome-terminal
My DE is neither Gnome nor KDE, it's Gnu Emacs. When at home I just ssh to my workstation at work and type Et voila, my DE appears on my home machine along with: currently edited buffers, tags, mails, news, blog, wiki, rss, diary, calendar, planners...
The best one I've ever seen is American Navy carry the Canadian flag up-side-down at the World-Series!
Not sure it was a mistake or just the typical childish behaviour, but it sure was funny!
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thing12:
Aren't we talking about source code worm? There's not much a point of writing a x86-only unix source worm. Btw, your x86-unix only source worm would either:
Since speed of propagation is the highest goal of any competent worm, neither of the above is acceptable for a worthy worm.
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such a worm won't propagate very quickly because the number of packages it'll have to download.
$ apt-rdepends gcc-3.3 libc6-dev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
gcc-3.3
Depends: binutils (>= 2.13.90.0.10)
Depends: cpp-3.3 (= 2.3.1-1)
Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:3.3)
binutils
Depends: debconf
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1)
Depends: shellutils
debconf
libc6
Depends: libdb1-compat
libdb1-compat
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13)
shellutils
cpp-3.3
Depends: gcc-3.3-base (= 2.3.1-1)
gcc-3.3-base
libgcc1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1)
libc6-dev
Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.1-11)
Not to say it probably has to change the netfilter rules and reboot.
My own experience, has been than Debian outperforms Debian on my hardware, but only after I've done some tweaking on Debian (the latter)! :-)
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. -- Yogi Berra
ESRian: someone so obsessed with himself that sometimes believed he's Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi.
>> SHOW ME A SINGLE PROGRAM THAT IS SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE IT HAS REDUCED CONFIGURATION FUNCTIONALITY
GNU Emacs!
A lot of options now have to be set using custom. I know a lot of avg Emacs users start configuring emacs more and more since the introduction of custom.
while custom is not as flexible as lisp but it does help non lisper to configure emacs, thus make emacs (v20 and later) more successful.
Anyone has a comparision on apt vs rpmfind
Can rpmfind have multiple sources as apt?
With apt you can multiple local directores, cdroms, ftp, http... as sources.
(This is because cryptography stuffs are on different servers. But it's really conviennient because I have large collection of locally built packages)
Is rpmfind limited to rufus as its source?
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bg.
I have a Asus P5A (super socket 7) board.
The board just cost 5$ more than the same
version without onboard sound.
The sound is a ESS-Solo hooked on the PCI bus.
I use ALSA for sound, it works great.