rudolf wrote:
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 07:25 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote: . . .
Unfortunately, Cringley was extremely ignorant of the fact that security and stability problems were _never_ the OS, but the applications themselves. . .
Security and stability issues can occur in operating systems and/or applications. Patches, upgrades, service packs or name it what you want has been and will be part of any system administrator's life does not matter if it is MVS, zOS, Netware, Windows Server, Linux, Unix or anything else.
However, bad software engineering practices certainly don't help. Read up on how MS embedded IE into the operating system, just so they could claim it couldn't be removed, without killing the OS. This tactic opened up Windows to vulnerabilities, in that problems with IE have now become OS problems. That has to be among the stupidest decisions MS ever made. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com