On Thursday 17 July 2003 02:51 pm, Lee Flier wrote:
> Robert Day's post about the latest Microsoft snafu brings up a question.
>
> Now that Red Hat and other distros contain a lot of tools to make
> installation, upgrades and other stuff easy for newbies/desktop users
> (which is all to the good in helping Linux replace M$), what is being
> done to prevent Microsoft-like domination of the Linux desktop? For
> example (I haven't yet perused any of the source code since obtaining
> RH), is the source included for the alert notification and up2date
> programs and has it been scrutinized for security/privacy holes? A lot
> of clients and friends are worried about M$'s ability to spy on them
> and/or the government's ability to force M$ to use their spy technology
> to snoop on people's personal or corporate computers. Is this a current
> or eventual worry for desktop users who receive regular updates from
> their chosen distributor, and is there a web site or list where these
> issues are discussed (if it's been discussed here, so much the better)?
>
Well, you can always use one of the other replacements for this, such as
apt4RPM, or YUM or something like that... Someone even wrote a nice GUI
interface to APT to make it easier -- it's called Synaptic. So, you're not
limited by the tools made available by your distro, you can (at least with
RPM-based distros) always use a different updater util... not to say that
Apt/Synaptic is 100% compatible with up2date, because it's not... but it's
close enough that if you don't try to go back and forth with them, it should
work fine for you.
John
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