On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:57:44 +1100, you wrote:
Unless you first acquire some "admin knoweldge" you should not install a Linux distro - least of all openSUSE - but stick with whatever flavour of Microsoft Windows you are currently using. Is this correct, according to your words?
No, you're putting words into my mouth I never said! Since when has failure of knowledge stopped anyone from installing Windows?
if you really bothered to understand what I have been writing
Thank you, but I have indeed understood what you've been writing. Don't imply misunderstanding when people don't say what you expect.
"What is being done to stop this possibility of shooting oneself in the foot"
You have to allow for that possibility as you would otherwise create a system nobody can work with and wants to work with.
when all the normal blurb, bruhaha, BS, about Linux being so secure that one should move from MS to Linux if you want security?
Linux *is* much more secure than Windows, period! Given that an application can't normally write anywhere outside your home directory there is for instance no way to infect binaries outside your home directory. There is *no* way to controll what an admin installs so if you trust unknown sources you're the only one to blame. This is a social problem that you can't solve with technical means or at least only to a certain degree.
but it is NOT as watertight as a fish's bum, right?
Nobody said that it is so.
and then go about trying to ensure that it IS watertight.
You can't make it watertight. You're dealing with living persons and as long as you let them have access to a system there's always possibilities for security breaches.
I asked if AppArmor was the fledging beginning of such an aim.
AA is more than a fledging beginning. If you want to see where stricter security leads look at the huge effort needed to get SELinux working the way you wnat it. And no, this is nothing a distributor can do for you. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org