-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-09-19 at 23:35 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
Taint simply means one is doing more with the machine than the original kernel developers were able to supply. It simply means you can take a module designed for another platform and run it in a sandbox and make it work in Linux. The solution is brilliant.
Not really. Tainted means that you loaded some "closed" software, which in turn means that if some thing fails there is nothing the kernel developers will do about it, because they can not check the code. As simple as that. It is like trying to repair a car with a black box inside. The scheme of peer review that has given Linux software the stability and security it has is thrown out of the window if you load closed source software. Not because it is evil - nobody said that but you - but because it can not be checked. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFERUMtTMYHG2NR9URAq9tAJ4ip/4XLl8Uush0kTIM3jeKp9ObqgCgj1LO WlCIDoZsAkwKzlvHgjhv7GA= =m/F8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----