On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:08:51PM +0100, Kovács Levente wrote: > On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 00:57:31 +0100 (CET) > "hoyuka hoya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I agree with your explanation. But the human beeings rather use > > directly Windows for there every day work/pleasure than computer > > systems made for doing critical things. > > You miss the point. We, and people who thinks that Unix is something > "good" do not use Unix, becouse everyone does it too. People who use > windoze use windows becouse "they've been told" to use it!!!! > > I think this is the point. We are using Unix, becouse of its > performance. Other's using WIndows, becouse they made lasy by ads or > whatever... Of course it's simplified version of the storry. > > > But imagine that the most common desktop OS would be Unix based and > > user friendly /very confortable to use and maintaine (since it's an > > important requirement for a desktop OS). There were a lot of user who > > would use this system always as root. There were mailing clients > > which allowed to run scripts/binaries comming with e-mails. Same > > terrible things would happen with these Unix machines like Windows > > machines now. > > Makes no snece. All I ever wnated from people who use windoze, to > somehow respect others. E.g. on my university to put the f*cking > acrobat reader to the computer at our end semester presentation, since > I use LaTeX. That's all! > > People can hear from many sources that the Unicies are safer than MS > > stuffs. But I don't know. Even if Linux is Open Source I haven't > > reviewed every source line in the kernel and in the suid > > applications. So I don't know what is behind the surface. And I
But you have reviewed every source line of MS Windows. > > haven't compiled every application myself, I have downloaded it from > > somewhere. What if the Linux "originally" safe, but I downloaded a > > hacked package from somewhere and the hacker may know every steps > > what I do with the machine? > > Trust. Linux is far more better in that way than windoze > > > I think it's even possible to simulate a DNS which would map > > www.kernel.org to an other machine where the site would looks like > > exactly www.kernel.org, but would contain hacked kernel sources. I > > think ISPs can do it easily. Maybe it's not the aim of the ISP, but > > can be the aim of an individual who is working there. But this is not possible with www.microsoft.com. CL<
