Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3031 mails)

[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 11 February 2008 08:25:31 am jdd wrote:
> Randall R Schulz a écrit :
> > > How can it be "tied closely to the OS" without being tied
> > > into the kernel.
> >
> > In fact, every bit of software that does not run on a virtual machine is
> > very much tied closely to the OS on which it runs. Only things like
> > device drivers and file system modules are in the kernel (and even they
> > need not be a part of the kernel per se).

Actually, Aaron (or whomever) is correct. Since '99 or so, in both NT and 
Win98/ME, the kernel handles many aspects of IE. IE6 cannot run in Vista 
since it has large chunks of code in the ntdll.dll file, which was wholly 
re-written for Vista.

Is there actually code in krnl386.exe? I don't know. 

> well... What Microsoft said is that the OS is tightly linked to IE, so
> they can't remove IE :-)
>
> and I've seen a *mouse* driver requiring IE as dependency... (I beg it
> was for the help system, but who knows :-))
>
> discussion on the lack of security of windows is endless. and vista is
> funny on this respect. every single operation need to be acnowledged
> twice by the user, so nobody read the popup anymore, it could be "your
> are going to die", the user whould clic OK anyway :-))

You can remove that. I have it disabled on both my Vista machines. Go into 
control panel, do a search for uac and select "Turn User Account Control on 
or off."  It will gripe at you a bit, but the annoying issue will go away.

Not as elegant as openSUSe and certainly not ready to be a usable operating 
system, but this little bit helps.
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx