[snip : Stackguard fart] This should be taken up with the ISO C standardization committee so that boundary checking becomes an optional language feature (giving us a well thought out choice) instead of forcing a stopgap measure on everybody...
[snip : to the point security reply by Ben] > why not with a standard install have it use the guarded versioon, with > the majority of new Mandrake users coming from a windows environment, > they won't think there was a performance hit at all, since anything over > a 1/100 rate will be faster than windows. [snip : ridiculous "benchmark"] Then it would be "Goodbye Mandrake." I thought Linux was about CHOICE, why would I, as a scientific user who needs all the performance he can reasonably get, be forced to get substandard performance just to suite people who don't patch their machines? Cloning Windoze (in feature and in phenomenon or culture) is making Linux LESS attractive every day, not so far from now the only difference will be price (and that's not necessarily a Good ThingTM)... > > Jaqui Guy
