On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> > Another thing about a free OS... Everyone can develop for it, thus
> > you have to check _every_ source of _every_ util you wanna use,
> > before installing it... and speaking for myself... I'm quite busy
> > just keeping things working and secure (when possible :( )
>
> This is the advantage of going with Red Hat or Caldera. They use
> RPM for their package releases so you have some validation of their
> authenticity.
Authenticity does not necessarily mean that there's no backdoor or
loophole. It only checks for the legitimacy of ownership.
And besides, you can check authenticity even without using RPM. It's a
convenience system but you can do this even if it's only tar-gziped with
pgp (since RPM uses pgp for authentication).
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Neil D. Quiogue
IPhil Communications Network, Inc.
e-mail: neil @
iphil .
net
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