Re: 30 Linux "security advisories" in just one week?

From: Kadaitcha Man (nospam_at_kadaitcha.cx)
Date: 06/12/04 

Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:41:10 -0700 (PDT)

John Thompson wrote:
> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.]
> On 2004-06-12, Kadaitcha Man <nospam@kadaitcha.cx> wrote:
>
>> Swampee wrote:
>>> On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 00:12:31 +0200, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Wrong. Since the drivers for linux are still there
>>>
>>> That's a laugh.
>>> Drivers for Linux get written as a last resort, if at all because
>>> the market is so miniscule that it doesn't pay to invest money in
>>> supporting Linux.
>>> Drivers for Windows are included in the box with the hardware.
>
>> Really? So when I installed XP yesterday, the fact that I had to
>> separately install usb2 drivers, drivers for my sblive, drivers for
>> my SiI RAID, wdm drivers for the video card, drivers for my scanner,
>> drivers for my camera, drivers for my SMBus, amongst others, XP was
>> just having a fucking lend of me?
>
> Not to mention having to reboot between every frickin' driver
> installation.

That's a furphy. Not all drivers require reboots and certainly not all
drivers that do need a reboot will force you to reboot. You can install a
sequence of drivers before a reboot is required. It all comes down to
dependencies.

> That's a real show-stopper and is completely unacceptable in a modern
> operating system.

Spreading fucking bull*** out of a lack of knowledge is also unacceptable,
but you wouldn't know that, would you? 

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