I'm just a user, mostly of Ubuntu since Jaunty Jackalope, about 12 years.
This is interesting and the comments are surprising.
The LINUX community has always been helpful when I post a question. My guru is a sure bet for a Burn voter, we never discuss politics.
This will be fun to follow.
1 posted on
04/21/2021 5:41:17 PM PDT by
DUMBGRUNT
To: DUMBGRUNT
What is it about Minnesota these days?
2 posted on
04/21/2021 5:42:52 PM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: DUMBGRUNT; rdb3; JosephW; martin_fierro; Still Thinking; zeugma; Vinnie; ironman; Egon; raybbr; ...
3 posted on
04/21/2021 5:46:31 PM PDT by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
To: DUMBGRUNT
Was it a closed experiment or did they get it out in the community?
I would think Linux would welcome an attack that exposed a vulnerability.
5 posted on
04/21/2021 5:50:05 PM PDT by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
To: DUMBGRUNT
Reading the comments helped explain the article better. Makes you wonder what these commenters would think of an American researcher who funded a Chinese lab which developed a virus that locked down the entire world?
6 posted on
04/21/2021 5:51:02 PM PDT by
Bernard
(“When once the guardian angel has taken flight, everything is lost”. – William H. Seward, 1/12/1861)
To: DUMBGRUNT
From the comments, one of the researchers was Chinese
7 posted on
04/21/2021 5:53:20 PM PDT by
SauronOfMordor
(A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
To: DUMBGRUNT
I like that it was caught and dealt with firmly.
10 posted on
04/21/2021 6:11:22 PM PDT by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: DUMBGRUNT
“These new, questionable patches don’t appear to have any real value — for good or bad — and at the very least are just wasting time by upstream developers.”
That’s Windows in a nutshell. Ten of thousands of patches that do nothing but bloat the software.
11 posted on
04/21/2021 6:14:14 PM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
To: DUMBGRUNT
I lived in that awful state for ten years. It got to the point where I no longer recognize any educational credentials or professional license from that state.
15 posted on
04/21/2021 6:30:30 PM PDT by
Fred Hayek
(Antifa=BLM=RevCom=CPUSA = CCP=Democratic Party )
To: DUMBGRUNT
what I’m getting from the article is that the developers of the bugs just wanted linux to act like windows
25 posted on
04/21/2021 8:57:56 PM PDT by
Bob434
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson