On Tuesday 23 January 2007 12:07, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:12:07 -0800 (PST), Eric Bohn wrote:
Using Portage you're putting yourself at the mercy of any Joe Schmoe
with a proxy connection to a Gentoo server that wants to compromise
your machine.
How so? They'd have to
Daniel da Veiga wrote:
On 1/22/07, Eric Bohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the US, I'm almost certain you wouldn't be able to get away with
running Gentoo, and more specifically, Portage, the way you
apparently do in a secure govt environment. There's probably a
federal directive or regulation
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 11:19, Dale wrote:
Daniel da Veiga wrote:
As someone who started out using Mandrake, I have to say that using
Gentoo has been a LOT easier. Yea, I had to learn how to use Gentoo and
it is different from Mandrake by far but it is a whole lot easier to
manage. I
Dale wrote:
As someone who started out using Mandrake, I have to say that using
Gentoo has been a LOT easier. Yea, I had to learn how to use Gentoo and
it is different from Mandrake by far but it is a whole lot easier to
manage. I have been using Gentoo for about 2 or 3 years for my desktop
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:12:07 -0800 (PST), Eric Bohn wrote:
Using Portage you're putting yourself at the mercy of any Joe Schmoe
with a proxy connection to a Gentoo server that wants to compromise
your machine.
How so? They'd have to get a compromised source tarball on the distfiles
mirrors
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:07:46 +
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:12:07 -0800 (PST), Eric Bohn wrote:
Using Portage you're putting yourself at the mercy of any Joe Schmoe
with a proxy connection to a Gentoo server that wants to compromise
your machine.
qfpvajdy wrote:
Hello,
I would like to convince my boss and my collegues to use Gentoo GNU/Linux at
the company office for the desktop system (and maybe one day also for servers).
Currently everybody uses its own Linux/Unix system, but soon we could be forced
to uses for everybody only one
On 1/22/07, Regis Decamps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
qfpvajdy wrote:
Hello,
I would like to convince my boss and my collegues to use Gentoo GNU/Linux at
the company office for the desktop system (and maybe one day also for servers).
Currently everybody uses its own Linux/Unix system, but
In the US, I'm almost certain you wouldn't be able to get away with running
Gentoo, and more specifically, Portage, the way you apparently do in a secure
govt environment. There's probably a federal directive or regulation somewhere
that prevents machines being run in govt organizations from
On 1/22/07, Eric Bohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the US, I'm almost certain you wouldn't be able to get away with running
Gentoo, and more specifically, Portage, the way you apparently do in a secure
govt environment. There's probably a federal directive or regulation somewhere
that
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