Re: gEDA-user: which linux?

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:08:51PM +0100, Kovács Levente wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 00:57:31 +0100 (CET)
> "hoyuka hoya" <hoyuka@xxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I agree with your explanation. But the human beeings rather use
> > directly Windows for there every day work/pleasure than computer
> > systems made for doing critical things.
> 
> You miss the point. We, and people who thinks that Unix is something
> "good" do not use Unix, becouse everyone does it too. People who use
> windoze use windows becouse "they've been told" to use it!!!!
> 
> I think this is the point. We are using Unix, becouse of its
> performance. Other's using WIndows, becouse they made lasy by ads or
> whatever... Of course it's simplified version of the storry.
> 
> > But imagine that the most common desktop OS would be Unix based and
> > user friendly /very confortable to use and maintaine (since it's an
> > important requirement for a desktop OS). There were a lot of user who
> > would use this system always as root. There were mailing clients
> > which allowed to run scripts/binaries comming with e-mails. Same
> > terrible things would happen with these Unix machines like Windows
> > machines now.
> 
> Makes no snece. All I ever wnated from people who use windoze, to
> somehow respect others. E.g. on my university to put the f*cking
> acrobat reader to the computer at our end semester presentation, since
> I use LaTeX. That's all! 
> > People can hear from many sources that the Unicies are safer than MS
> > stuffs. But I don't know. Even if Linux is Open Source I haven't
> > reviewed every source line in the kernel and in the suid
> > applications. So I don't know what is behind the surface. And I

But you have reviewed every source line of MS Windows.

> > haven't compiled every application myself, I have downloaded it from
> > somewhere. What if the Linux "originally" safe, but I downloaded a
> > hacked package from somewhere and the hacker may know every steps
> > what I do with the machine?
> 
> Trust. Linux is far more better in that way than windoze
>  
> > I think it's even possible to simulate a DNS which would map
> > www.kernel.org to an other machine where the site would looks like
> > exactly www.kernel.org, but would contain hacked kernel sources. I
> > think ISPs can do it easily. Maybe it's not the aim of the ISP, but
> > can be the aim of an individual who is working there.

But this is not possible with www.microsoft.com.

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