Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1728 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/12/09 22:18, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > I can understand why security issues, what they are and how they could
> > be compromised, should not be publicly discussed but I cannot see why
> > questions about security have to only be answered by ordinary users in
> > this, or other similar fora, without somebody from the producers of the
> > OS - in this case, openSUSE - cannot state what the "official" response
> > is about how 'their' OS is not subject to being compromised.
> >     
> It is *not* 'their' OS, it is Open Source.
>   

In case you haven't heard, just in case in case, Novell/openSUSE people
"massage" things to make some things 'unique' to oS. For example, is
YasT available in other distros? And have you read some of the dox in oS
which specifically state that openSUSE has "massaged" control files (but
don't ask me right now for an example.)

And have you heard that there is a movement to standardise the way
distros are put together so that all/most control files/directory
structures/apps can be interchangeable? Yes/No?

> And this issues does *not* represent a compromise; it represents
> stupidity and negligence on the part of the local administrator.
>   

See my response to Marcus.

Who is oS aimed at: the "administrator" or the common punter, like me,
in the street?

> > I think that you can get the gist of what I am talking about....(Which
> > is something along-the-lines of getting a response from somebody who has
> > a genuine and recognisable monicker directly linking her/him to Novell's
> > ownership of openSUSE.)
> >     
> I have *no* need

You selfish bugger!

Always with the, "Me, me, me......"

Well, *I* do have a need for such a response! Got a problem with this?


>  of anyone from Novell to response about this - the
> answer is that basic UNIX security resolves this issue; and all
> distributions are impacted the exact same way.
>   

So?

So why cannot someone - someone like you for example - answer this
question? All you keep going on about is what you have been going on
about. Why not at least have the capacity to answer like Marcus is
answering with sensible responses based on knowledge.

> > It really is like the argument going on the present time between those
> > who claim that there is global warming and those who claim that there is
> > no such thing.
> >     
> Go stuff it.
>   

Where?

BC

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