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

[John Thompson]

["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 real show-stopper and is completely unacceptable in a modern 
operating system. 

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-John (john@os2.dhs.org)