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On Sunday 07 September 2003 13:12, Martin Schlemmer wrote: |
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> That, with the fact that changing this way of doing things, will break |
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> the 'should sorda work out of the box' policy that we support (or try |
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> to last time I checked). |
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Thats good policy and will work for most (Desktops). |
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Windows does it, even for servers, and it works pretty well, especially for |
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lovesan. |
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On Sunday 07 September 2003 13:12, Martin Schlemmer wrote: |
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> [...] work out of the box' |
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Thats an illusion if gentoo-core would like to enter the serious server |
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market. There is no such thing as 'out of the box'. |
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Taken from http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml: |
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"Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo Linux can become an ideal |
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secure server" |
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is not really true. portage, beside the terrible security holes like |
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"pkg_postinst", has, up to now, nothing to do with the security of a server. |
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Please clearify the statement on the page. |
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