Hi all,
thank you for the fast response. Your answers did help much and made
everything clear.
Have a nice weekend!
Best
Hans
Hi, All..
This just hit my emails seconds ago. It's the most info that I've
personally read about the XZ backdoor exploit. I've been following
NextGov as a friendly, plain language resource about government:
Linux backdoor was a long con, possibly with nation-state support, experts say;
By David
On 2024-04-01, Michel Verdier wrote:
> On 2024-04-01, DdB wrote:
>
>>> A computer with a 6-core processor, 64 GB memory, and 9 drive bays/
>>> ports that cannot boot USB? That does not make sense.
>>
>> Why not?
>
> Perhaps because usb boot is available since a very long time
>
The OP informed u
My colleague uses Windows, another uses Mac OS while I use Debian Gnu/Linux
12.
The majority of users use Windows while developers and designers use mac os
but a little of people use Debian Gnu/Linux 12. So, what is the goal of
having this distribution?.
I use in Debian Gnu/Linux the following to
William Torrez Corea writes:
[...]
> The majority of users use Windows while developers and designers use
> mac os but a little of people use Debian Gnu/Linux 12. So, what is the
> goal of having this distribution?.
Translating from a contemporary italian philosopher, the answer you are
looking
Desktop Linux is widely used in physics and mathematics. NASA uses
Linux extensively, including on Mars and on the ISS. SpaceX uses Linux
on their rockets and spacecraft. Over 90% of the top 1 million Web
servers run Linux, including Yahoo, X, and Ebay. Almost all
supercomputers use Linux. Linu
On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 12:27:03PM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> Hi, All..
>
> This just hit my emails seconds ago. It's the most info that I've
> personally read about the XZ backdoor exploit. I've been following
> NextGov as a friendly, plain language resource about government:
>
> Linux bac
On 4/5/24 11:35 AM, John Hasler wrote:
Desktop Linux is widely used in physics and mathematics. NASA uses
Linux extensively, including on Mars and on the ISS. SpaceX uses Linux
on their rockets and spacecraft. Over 90% of the top 1 million Web
servers run Linux, including Yahoo, X, and Ebay.
* On 2024 05 Apr 11:28 -0500, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> Hi, All..
>
> This just hit my emails seconds ago. It's the most info that I've
> personally read about the XZ backdoor exploit. I've been following
> NextGov as a friendly, plain language resource about government:
>
> Linux backdoor was a
* On 2024 05 Apr 12:37 -0500, William Torrez Corea wrote:
> My colleague uses Windows, another uses Mac OS while I use Debian Gnu/Linux
> 12.
Choice is good.
> The majority of users use Windows while developers and designers use mac os
> but a little of people use Debian Gnu/Linux 12. So, what is
On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 08:38:36PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[...]
> No, on the contrary. First of all, it is great that it has been
> caught /before/ it could cause much harm [...]
...and of course kudos and thans to Andres Freund who spotted
the thing!
Cheers
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On 4/5/24 12:12 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
. . .
Most of the time the platform is dictated by the application(s) a
user wants to run. . . .
Indeed. Which is why I still have DOS boxes (running IBM PC-DOS 2000,
with DOSShell, and no WinDoze whatsoever: Xerox Ventura Publisher
(DOS/GEM Edition)
I will note that open source software has, by definition, a lot more
eyes looking at the source. Which is probably why (as Tomas said)
"proprietary software tends to fare significantly worse."
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JHHL
Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> Continues to sound like one single perp is destroying the TRUST
> factor that an untold number of future programmers must meet. That's
> heartbreaking.
It has never sounded like a single perp to me. 'Jia Tan' is an obvious
sock puppet as are the other names who pushed L
On 4/5/24 16:42, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
I will note that open source software has, by definition, a lot more
eyes looking at the source. Which is probably why (as Tomas said)
"proprietary software tends to fare significantly worse."
--
JHHL
.
In light of that its worth noting that an M$ e
On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 13:38:50 -0700
"James H. H. Lampert" wrote:
> Which is why I still have DOS boxes (running IBM PC-DOS 2000,
> with DOSShell, and no WinDoze whatsoever….
You might look into freedos.
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On Fri, Apr 5, 2024, 1:39 PM wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 12:27:03PM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> > Hi, All..
> >
> > This just hit my emails seconds ago. It's the most info that I've
> > personally read about the XZ backdoor exploit. I've been following
> > NextGov as a friendly, plain l
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