From: "Geo." 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
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> Surely what's in the distro is up to the distro? I.e. RH is looking to
> bundle the ObjectWeb stuff (Jonas, Joram et al). It's not up to the
> Jonas people to bundle Jonas into RH it's up to RH.

Does Linus contribute to the RH product? If he screws up and codes
something that's exploitable don't you consider that a RH exploit if it
affects RH?

Or are you trying to say RH is responsible for nothing at all, not even the
core of the OS? I mean by your reasoning if someone buys RH there is nobody
they can hold responsible for providing patches? They just have to hope
someone releases a patch and that they happen upon it somewhere on the web?

> Hummm. So I want to serve web pages. Name the competing "solutions" to
> my need.

Netlink, Digix, etc..

> So a little eden fan free with linux or Win2K is the same as a honking
> great Unix box?

If all you want to do is something both boxes can do and the scale of what
you want to do is within the capability range of both boxes, yes.

Isn't this exactly what is happening today, an ISP can buy a bunch of
little servers, or dual cpu rack mounts, or an AS400 running virtual Linux
partitions. They do compete with each other for some requirements.

> The weakest code **you have installed/loaded**. No IIS, no IIS hacks
> possible etc.

Your logic is because you bought RH and all you use it for is to hold the
books from falling off the edge of your bookshelf that it's totally secure.
How the hell am I supposed to reason with that logic? Your usage (or lack
of it) actually is secure in that case but at the same time your logic is
badly flawed wrt security of the product.


> Hummm...is this:
>
> http://www.flipstartpc.com/
>
> A PC?
>
> Or is it a model car?

It's a PC, but this is not http://wearcam.org/wristcam/

Geo.

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