Mike Bird wrote:
On Sun June 15 2008 17:50:16 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
The problem is that "use your machine" for most people is not limited to
playing solitaire on a machine without network connections.
Buy a router? Use the software firewall?
Neither protects against security holes in web browsers,
mail clients, word processors, etc. Any web page you
visit, any email you read, any image you view, any
document you read ... could contain malformed data
trying to exploit buffer overflow or other security bugs.
In a review of OpenSuSE 11 one reviewer praised using the 3.5 KDE parts
to provide functionality. I have the impression from what he said that
their KDE is mostly 4 with a helping of 3.5 to provide working versions
of some things which aren't properly functional in 4.x.
Either they're more trusting than Fedora, or less concerned with being
bleeding edge vs. functional, or just less influenced by KDE folks to
get the new stuff out there.
As for security, CentOS-5.2 (and the underlying RHEL) use KDE 3.5, so I
assume that there is a security enhanced 3.5 available for Fedora if the
decision were made on technical capability, rather than some goal to
have the latest stuff, be it functional for users or not. So either you
are saying that the KDE in RHEL is insecure, or that Fedora chose not to
provide the previous functionality for users, even though you have an
enterprise 3.5 in-house.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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