My reading of the issue on the FreeBSD advisory is that it is likely 10.1.x is affected by this too.
Can anyone confirm?
Is a fix from Apple likely? I would find it very disappointing if Apple have stopped issuing security fixes for this OS - even Microsoft support their previous generation products (Windows 2000 Professional, for example).
If not, given this affects the (open-source) Darwin core of the OS, is a patch to the affected library/ies a possibility?
I'm just about to implement an advertising booking system for my small employer, which will eventually be expanded into an entire contact management solution (so is the plan, anyway:)
My employer originally wanted me to use Access [usual reasons - that's the way other companies he's seen have done it, Microsoft is great, Microsoft is wonderful, etc etc] but then I told him about the Microsoft tax and now he sees the wisdom of an open source solution:)
I was going to use a MySQL backend served by Apache/PHP hosted on our MacOSX PowerMac (I'm still at the data modelling phase at the moment) - but now I'm wondering if this SAP DB might be a better solution? I am impressed by the reputation of SAP in enterprise solutions, but from what I understand this SAP DB is strictly a RDBMS backend, not dissimilar from MySQL or the base install of Oracle.
I'm the Graphic Designer/IT Guy in a small advertising agency. MacOSX has allowed me to create - entirely for free - our own mail server (fetchmail-sendmail-qpopper), internal job versioning and approval system (Apache-WebDAV), internal messaging application (Apache-perl), firewall (ipfw), remote login (OpenSSH) and probably a myriad of smaller applications that I use without thinking about everyday, all from ported GNU/BSD command-line apps...
...all on the same machine that runs our core-business GUI apps: Photoshop, QuarkXPress [unfortunately a hangover from our previous OS9 use] and Acrobat.
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My reading of the issue on the FreeBSD advisory is that it is likely 10.1.x is affected by this too.
Can anyone confirm?
Is a fix from Apple likely? I would find it very disappointing if Apple have stopped issuing security fixes for this OS - even Microsoft support their previous generation products (Windows 2000 Professional, for example).
If not, given this affects the (open-source) Darwin core of the OS, is a patch to the affected library/ies a possibility?
From the artcle:
So I guess this means hard-core Mac users should switch to KDE, rather than Windows?
I guess they mean these people have used previous incarnations of Windows - but then, that's not really a fair comparison, is it?
I'm just about to implement an advertising booking system for my small employer, which will eventually be expanded into an entire contact management solution (so is the plan, anyway :)
My employer originally wanted me to use Access [usual reasons - that's the way other companies he's seen have done it, Microsoft is great, Microsoft is wonderful, etc etc] but then I told him about the Microsoft tax and now he sees the wisdom of an open source solution :)
I was going to use a MySQL backend served by Apache/PHP hosted on our MacOSX PowerMac (I'm still at the data modelling phase at the moment) - but now I'm wondering if this SAP DB might be a better solution? I am impressed by the reputation of SAP in enterprise solutions, but from what I understand this SAP DB is strictly a RDBMS backend, not dissimilar from MySQL or the base install of Oracle.
Any thoughts?
I'm the Graphic Designer/IT Guy in a small advertising agency. MacOSX has allowed me to create - entirely for free - our own mail server (fetchmail-sendmail-qpopper), internal job versioning and approval system (Apache-WebDAV), internal messaging application (Apache-perl), firewall (ipfw), remote login (OpenSSH) and probably a myriad of smaller applications that I use without thinking about everyday, all from ported GNU/BSD command-line apps...
...all on the same machine that runs our core-business GUI apps: Photoshop, QuarkXPress [unfortunately a hangover from our previous OS9 use] and Acrobat.
I say horray to the command-line :)