Re: gEDA-user: which linux?

["hoyuka hoya" <hoyuka@xxxxx>]

Hello,

Deep hacking of OpenSource stuffs is much more easier than deep hacking of
closed source stuffs.

hoyuka

Karel Kulhavy said:
> 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.
>
> CL<
>

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