On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 15:16 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
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?
HELLO - That is what distributions do! Is system-config-securitylevel-tui available on openSUSE? No, but it exists on every CentOS box. And, BTW, Yast is an Open Source project used on distirbutions other than SuSe - including Oracle's "unbreakable" distribution.
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.)
Duh. It is a distro.
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?
Yes. I package software. I'm aware. openSUSE complies very well with the Linux filesystem standard. Go read the document and come back with cases where it doesn't. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org