Vista Security

[Jone Doe]

Sorry if this is old news to you, just ran across it.

A security feature used in the open-source world is now helping to harden
Windows Vista against buffer overrun exploits.

Microsoft has quietly fitted the feature, called ASLR (Address Space Layout
Randomization) in Windows Vista Beta 2 as part of a larger plan to make it
more difficult to automate attacks against the operating system.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1969529,00.asp?kc=ewnws053106dtx1k0000599

 

[Gerry Hickman]

A security feature used in the open-source world is now helping to harden
Windows Vista against buffer overrun exploits.

Open source rocks!

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Not for Open Suse/Suse Linux 10.1, have you read the comments on OSNews
about it?
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[Gerry Hickman]

Hi Andre,

Well I'm sure there may be times when it's not perfect, just like
Windows, but on the whole I think it rocks, and anyway, if you don't
like something you can just change it, and if there's a bug you can just
fix it - you don't have to wait months for Microsoft.

Do you have the URL to the article abouut Suse?

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Well there are major factors that will give me the incentive for waiting,
way more beautiful, compatibility and I have a better knowledge of Windows
than Linux.

Here's the link:
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=14778
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[Gerry Hickman]

Hi Andre,

I don't really see anything in the article that says anything bad about
open-source. They seem to be bickering about laptops and cost.

Suse is only one distribution, and they always throw in a lot of
experimental stuff which isn't going to work straight away.

These guys throwing Suse onto Laptops is a bit like someone is this
group throwing Vista onto their stand-alone XP pro box and then getting
upset when something wasn't perfect.

The bottom line, is that with open-source, if you don't like something,
you can CHANGE it, but with Windows you're stuck with what you're given...

In some ways, with Linux there's too much variety, and this prevents the
possibility of a "One Linux fits all" CD that any home user can just hit
"install" and have instant gratification.

Behind the scenes, you can have 10 times better daemons and security
than on Windows, and 10 times faster too, and ability to manage 10 times
more workstations in a tenth of the time, but for those who need a GUI
or want to play a Direct3d game, it's hopeless!

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Well, at first, the sound of the comments were more about compatibility and
performance, I guess the direction changed since it was posted. Linux still
has a long way to go, I say cut the distributions down to the top five,
Redhat/Fedora, NLD/Suse, Debian, Unbuntu, Mandriva. No other distributions
should be derived from those although Unbuntu is derived from Debian, but
leav it at and build upon those five. I definitely can see choice,
flexibility and complete set for developers develop a platform on.
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