Linux is most attractive commercially to (1) small companies selling CDs primarily to end-users, not developers, in an environment where ``buy-low, sell-high'' may still give the end-user a very cheap product (this does not mean that Linux is not attractive to programmers); (2) hardware companies that intend to undermine software companies in the OS business; and (3) companies that expect to survive by providing various forms of technical support (including documentation) for the GPLed intellectual property world.
Nobody gives a damn what OS you run. The majority of computer users do have problems with these viruses. When it happens to them, go ahead and keep your smugness to yourself.
Oh dear AC, go read my post again and compare it to the original post. Just because you post as AC is not a license to not use your brain. Erh, ignore previous sentence.
Well, I know of a few that do now... Seriously, is this that much of a threat? Winzip (AFAIK) doesn't handle Rar archives, and most users wouldn't know how to open one if they did find one in their inbox...
Well, I do scan even.RAR files... Seriously, I use OpenBSD as a desktop so is this much of a threat? I mean, this "virus" thingy seems way overblown, at least for me.
In my experience there are oddities dealing with subversion though. Subversion is the complete extent of my WebDAV experience though so take this with a grain of salt.
Subversion only implements parts of WebDAV, and that is clearly spelled out in the documentation. However, what you can do is to use WebDAV on Subversion for read access from a DAV client (like Windoes "WebFolders"). This is very handy on occasion.
How is that not true with any OS? Such a feat would require somewhat special hardware; it isnt a very common PC that has a serial console.
Most PCs can't use serial console for BIOS, but after that there should be litle problems using serial console, even on Linux. I use serial console on my headless machines running OpenBSD (heck, you even get a question about that during installation) and may choose which kernel to boot. To do a serial console install, I boot with the bsd.rd (ram disk image) and I can upgrade/install. The bsd.rd should be of the version of OpenBSD you want to install.
To do this remotely, you need network access to a PC that is serial connected to the machine you want install on. No special hardware needed here.
What would be interesting is to see a group of companies start an OSS project from the ground up, pour their own money, pay programmers. But then again, there is no motivation for that! Big companies are only interested in jumping on OSS projects that happen to have gained fame...
There are several examples of companies doing this, singly if not in group. For instance,
Subversion has paid developers to design and implement Subversion. X11 has seen quite a bit of paid development by various companies.
The editor comments on a book about a network authentication and encryption protocol, i comment about an approach that i consider better and more modern.
In your parent post you claim that OpenSSH is a replacement of Kerberos. It's not offtopic, I grant you that. On the other hand. you are wrong in your claim.
This is why I run MSDOS! No bloat and blindingly fast! And by the way, who needs anti-aliased font!?!?!?! That just consumes extremely valuable CPU and memory resources!!!!!
Instead, the Microsoft employee is merely suggesting the use of longer passwords. I am shocked and appalled that a respectable forum such as Slashdot is stooping to "sexing up" its material in this manner.
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No ones noticed that we have this ALL the time on slashdot? How do we fix it? We leave a warning for all, and then we ignore it. Simple as pie.
Go read the comments of any outsouring story on Slashdot, and you'll find many racist comments moderated Insightful or Informative. It's a real disappointment that so many Slashdotters are nothing more than bigots.
The fact is racistism, and all *ism's will NEVER go away, but this doesn't mean that you can't choose to not care about them. These people have nothing better to do with their lifes, pity them, they are the ones that become nothing.
"All what the good men have to do for Evil to triumf is to do nothing".
I have a question for any legal geeks out there. Why are civil suits allowed to proceed at all without any evidence from the prosecutor?
I'll think that you'll get much better informed answers
elsewhere. The major focus of Slashdot is to sell advertisement, and this is very evident in the tabloid style stories. Groklaw.net quite simply wants to inform and have thoughtful threads,
Am I missing something? Did not every serious observer, from John Kerry to MI5, believe that Saddam had WMD's prior to the war? Are you saying that they were all so stupid and gullible that they could be misled by the smooth lies of the inarticulate smirking chimp moron Bushitler?
They where either gullible or partaking in spreading the lie. With alot of help of the US corporate media as well.
Those that where part of the actual arms inspection in Iraq noted that Iraq did not have any WMD capability, or it was very unlikely. The head of UN arms inspection more or less said so in his report to the Security Council.
The WDM lie, like the lie that Saddam was behind 9/11, was just pretexts to invade and occupy a country in order to control it's oil resources.
Grow up. Kids are required by law to go to school anyway. Is their "freedom" being restricted because they have to be there every day? No one is sticking an RFID under every citizen's skin so they can be tracked by government satellite. They are making sure kids at school are in fact at school.
There is a difference between checking that a kid is attending classes and electronically monitoring his/her every movement. This electronically monitoring of kids smacks of police state mentality.
"The Brittan School District in Sutter County, California, is requiring students to carry RFID-tagged identity badges on them at all times. Readers are currently installed at the doors to all classrooms...."
Subversion uses alot of RAM for some operations (like 100MB+ for a "svn up" or "svn switch" on OpenBSD source tree). This makes Subversion somewhat hard to use on systems with little RAM or many concurrent users. I don't know if that has changed, but I think that the Subversion developers are working on it.
Doesn't this belong under Linux, or a new section called Apps or something... I remember this happening a few months ago with a GNOME release. I subscribe to the BSD stuff because I care about BSD.
Now you can go to bitch in the Linux section that
X.org 6.8.2 runs very fine on *BSD, and thus should be included in the BSD section. And while you are there, add some comments that X.org license is much more BSD than GPL, so putting the X.org in the Linux section is plainly wrong.
While you read the comments to your post, you may wonder about Slashdotters that extolls the virtues of GPL versus the BSD license, while at the same time demanding more updated binary drivers from NVidia.
This is precisely why many people have opted to migrate off OpenBSD to other open-source alternatives. Now that pf has been fully integrated into FreeBSD 5.3, I really don't have a compelling reason to use OpenBSD anymore.
Then those people did not use OpenBSD because of it's security. OpenBSD removed a package that has many remote holes and is typically run as root. I think that is a good reason to continuing to use OpenBSD. For those that still must run Ethereal, they caon just do the usual./configure && make install stuff.
Right during 3.5, it had more than a dozen remote holes being fixed, that we shipped with. Weeks later things have not improved, and there continue to be problems reported to bugtraq, and respective band-aids - but it is clear the ethereal team does not care about security, as new protocols get added, and nothing gets done about the many more holes that exist.
Just because something is open source does not imply that it's secure.
Unlike with other operating systems -- including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux -- NetBSD holds off on releasing features until they are stable. That's why there are few releases. This is a good thing.
If a feature is not considered stable on OpenBSD, it's not included in the release. Just because OpenBSD releases twice a year does not imply that the include features considered to be unstable.
It's one of the most secure operating systems in the world. Compare the NetBSD 1.6.2 security patch list to the OpenBSD 3.5 security patch list.
If one want to compare
OpenBSD 3.5 Security Advisories
and
NetBSD 1.6.2 Security Patches
one should take into consideration that most of these security patches are for thirdparty applications. Both OpenBSD and NetBSD uses cvs, thus share the similar problems (at least until OpenCVS is completed). This goes for many other The base install of NetBSD differs and with OpenBSD the larger one as well, thus security patches must differ. Just comparing number of security patches, whithout regard what those security patches are based upon, is not very fruitful for determine which OS is more secure. Besides, there are more to security than number of patches issued.
I know I should not feed the trolls, but I can inform you that
Xfce
works very well on
OpenBSD, and so does
KDE. If only
Firefox could render Slashdot properly, but that is not an OpenBSD problem;-)
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One view from Why Researchers Should use a BSD-style License Instead of the GPL :
Oh dear AC, go read my post again and compare it to the original post. Just because you post as AC is not a license to not use your brain. Erh, ignore previous sentence.
Well, I do scan even .RAR files... Seriously, I use OpenBSD as a desktop so is this much of a threat? I mean, this "virus" thingy seems way overblown, at least for me.
Subversion only implements parts of WebDAV, and that is clearly spelled out in the documentation. However, what you can do is to use WebDAV on Subversion for read access from a DAV client (like Windoes "WebFolders"). This is very handy on occasion.
Most PCs can't use serial console for BIOS, but after that there should be litle problems using serial console, even on Linux. I use serial console on my headless machines running OpenBSD (heck, you even get a question about that during installation) and may choose which kernel to boot. To do a serial console install, I boot with the bsd.rd (ram disk image) and I can upgrade/install. The bsd.rd should be of the version of OpenBSD you want to install.
To do this remotely, you need network access to a PC that is serial connected to the machine you want install on. No special hardware needed here.
Why Researchers Should use a BSD-style License Instead of the GPL
There are several examples of companies doing this, singly if not in group. For instance, Subversion has paid developers to design and implement Subversion. X11 has seen quite a bit of paid development by various companies.
I don't think that a library would accept a DVD that did not look like an original.
The editor comments on a book about a network authentication and encryption protocol, i comment about an approach that i consider better and more modern.
In your parent post you claim that OpenSSH is a replacement of Kerberos. It's not offtopic, I grant you that. On the other hand. you are wrong in your claim.
This is why I run MSDOS! No bloat and blindingly fast! And by the way, who needs anti-aliased font!?!?!?! That just consumes extremely valuable CPU and memory resources!!!!!
MCSE? Must Call Someone Experienced? You need a book on that subject?
Note to moderators : This is an example of irony
Go read the comments of any outsouring story on Slashdot, and you'll find many racist comments moderated Insightful or Informative. It's a real disappointment that so many Slashdotters are nothing more than bigots.
"All what the good men have to do for Evil to triumf is to do nothing".
I'll think that you'll get much better informed answers elsewhere. The major focus of Slashdot is to sell advertisement, and this is very evident in the tabloid style stories. Groklaw.net quite simply wants to inform and have thoughtful threads,
They where either gullible or partaking in spreading the lie. With alot of help of the US corporate media as well.
Those that where part of the actual arms inspection in Iraq noted that Iraq did not have any WMD capability, or it was very unlikely. The head of UN arms inspection more or less said so in his report to the Security Council.
The WDM lie, like the lie that Saddam was behind 9/11, was just pretexts to invade and occupy a country in order to control it's oil resources.
There is a difference between checking that a kid is attending classes and electronically monitoring his/her every movement. This electronically monitoring of kids smacks of police state mentality.
I don't envy this kind of freedom....
Subversion uses alot of RAM for some operations (like 100MB+ for a "svn up" or "svn switch" on OpenBSD source tree). This makes Subversion somewhat hard to use on systems with little RAM or many concurrent users. I don't know if that has changed, but I think that the Subversion developers are working on it.
Now you can go to bitch in the Linux section that X.org 6.8.2 runs very fine on *BSD, and thus should be included in the BSD section. And while you are there, add some comments that X.org license is much more BSD than GPL, so putting the X.org in the Linux section is plainly wrong.
While you read the comments to your post, you may wonder about Slashdotters that extolls the virtues of GPL versus the BSD license, while at the same time demanding more updated binary drivers from NVidia.
Then those people did not use OpenBSD because of it's security. OpenBSD removed a package that has many remote holes and is typically run as root. I think that is a good reason to continuing to use OpenBSD. For those that still must run Ethereal, they caon just do the usual ./configure && make install stuff.
Heh, recommending a security tool that OpenBSD removed because the Ethereal team does not care about security
Just because something is open source does not imply that it's secure.
I don't know if poverty bothers him or not, but I do know that in USA there is huge tax incentives for "charity".
If a feature is not considered stable on OpenBSD, it's not included in the release. Just because OpenBSD releases twice a year does not imply that the include features considered to be unstable.
It's one of the most secure operating systems in the world. Compare the NetBSD 1.6.2 security patch list to the OpenBSD 3.5 security patch list.
If one want to compare OpenBSD 3.5 Security Advisories and NetBSD 1.6.2 Security Patches one should take into consideration that most of these security patches are for thirdparty applications. Both OpenBSD and NetBSD uses cvs, thus share the similar problems (at least until OpenCVS is completed). This goes for many other The base install of NetBSD differs and with OpenBSD the larger one as well, thus security patches must differ. Just comparing number of security patches, whithout regard what those security patches are based upon, is not very fruitful for determine which OS is more secure. Besides, there are more to security than number of patches issued.
I know I should not feed the trolls, but I can inform you that Xfce works very well on OpenBSD, and so does KDE. If only Firefox could render Slashdot properly, but that is not an OpenBSD problem ;-)