On Saturday 10 January 2004 7:41 pm, Craig White wrote:

> > What?  you mean any newb doesn't know how to do this? ;-)
>
> ---
> I suppose somewhere within this smug and sarcastic comment is a point -
> and it is invalid.
>
> You absolutely miss the entire point of Linux, open source and yet have
> no hesitation in running it up on a flag pole for everyone to notice.
>
> An operating system (and when you speak of a linux distribution would
> include all of the enclosed applications) are audited not by any single
> person but by the collective whole. No single person I know has the
> time, talents and energy to audit the entire source tree for errors or
> malicious code. This audit is performed by the collective whole - the
> mass of users including the few that pour through the source code to
> modify it, borrow parts for other projects or just need to compile it
> again for more or less features or by those who strace/systrace
> processes for debugging, etc.
>
> You really should confine your talents to 'constantly repartitioning,
> changing, installing new hard ware on my
> system.' Windows provides an ample amount of opportunities to do this -
> all from the click and administrate interface. It's definitely you.
>
> Craig

Come on,  I put a smiley at the end..Joking around.

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