About the open Source... It's good:-) Yeah, it's easy to find weaknesses, and don't forget, if THAT wasn't possible, how can you secure your system if noone is there to tell you to correct what things.
In Microsofts way, only THEY can find the weaknesses, that's bad, cause there are always people who finds things that the producer of a piece of software can not find. In that place, I'd trust an OpenSource more than a system like windows, which is a closed land for programmers, because the OpenSource gives the ability to find weaknesses to be corrected.
I have been looking through the document as posted. Lot of the things that it contains are in my opinion crap. Example can be given, they say programs made under windows always run under windows.. that's not correct, Program made for WinNT doesn't run on fx. Win 3.xx or 9X, simply because of the platform change and the different "Technologies". If you take a KDE program, it WILL run under other window managers, it's just a matter of having the KDE Libraries installed. The writer of the documents must have forgotten that many programs use libraries, and they are available to be installed. Most programs also comes as Source-code in tar-balls, that means they need to be compiled for each system, which makes it wide "world" portable. Windows has the same thing. If you don't have the correct DLL's installed, some programs might not run! Maybe the writer of that document should reread and get the "lifestory" of how Linux works and how it is supposed to work.
I just installed RedHat Linux 6.0 on my System at home. It runs by first time install.. but...
Don't even try to install any libraries for use with StarOffice 5.0, that makes your Linux crash if you update/etc/ld.so.conf and hereafter run ldconfig.... Please StarDivision, make us an update.....
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About the open Source... It's good :-) Yeah, it's easy to find weaknesses, and don't forget, if THAT wasn't possible, how can you secure your system if noone is there to tell you to correct what things.
In Microsofts way, only THEY can find the weaknesses, that's bad, cause there are always people who finds things that the producer of a piece of software can not find. In that place, I'd trust an OpenSource more than a system like windows, which is a closed land for programmers, because the OpenSource gives the ability to find weaknesses to be corrected.
I have been looking through the document as posted. Lot of the things that it contains are in my opinion crap. Example can be given, they say programs made under windows always run under windows.. that's not correct, Program made for WinNT doesn't run on fx. Win 3.xx or 9X, simply because of the platform change and the different "Technologies". If you take a KDE program, it WILL run under other window managers, it's just a matter of having the KDE Libraries installed. The writer of the documents must have forgotten that many programs use libraries, and they are available to be installed. Most programs also comes as Source-code in tar-balls, that means they need to be compiled for each system, which makes it wide "world" portable. Windows has the same thing. If you don't have the correct DLL's installed, some programs might not run! Maybe the writer of that document should reread and get the "lifestory" of how Linux works and how it is supposed to work.
I just installed RedHat Linux 6.0 on my System at home. It runs by first time install.. but...
/etc/ld.so.conf and hereafter run ldconfig.... Please StarDivision, make us an update.....
Don't even try to install any libraries for use with StarOffice 5.0, that makes your Linux crash if you update