> > The KDE interface contains 4,712,273 lines of code, has fixed 1,554 > > defects, has verified another 25 and has only 65 to go. Gnome > > contains 430,809 lines of code, has fixed 357 defects, verified 5 and > > has 214 to go. > > Umm... 4,712,273 vs. 430,809 lines of code? Surely they're not including > all of Gnome.
:) Also ... KDE: 1600 defects only per 5 million lines of code--it would be outclassing the M-U-C-H tinier Postfix [how many lines? less than 50'000 I bet, that is < 1/100] which has been designed by a security expert programmer with security as the goal from the start, already--and down from 1600 to 100 "with only 65 to go" by surplus. Miracle. Quite likely it's about *defects* of a kind a given program can detect in other programs (hello halting theorem) ... it recalls me very much the statistics on Finland's guns which xinhuanet.com has (mis)quoted time ago [see a previous, off-topic post]. Anyway. I have been told--by friends ... I have seen deserts only from the windows of the airplanes, unfortunately--that a guide of the [African] desert has commented once, in years in which GPS and GLONAS were not used yet, that when rescue teams managed to locate people who went lost in the desert the former nearly always managed to reconstruct how the latter did try to drink EVERYTHING before dying: water from the flasks, water from the radiator of the car, aftershave, shampoo, toothpaste, ... At which stage are *we* [I mean, the people directly or indirectly mentioned by the article]--drinking water of the radiator, or shampoo? One reason more to love Ion, and ... cheers /Roy -- SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS jadilah kumbang, hidup sekali di taman bunga, SSSSS . s l a c k w a r e SSSSSS jangan jadi lalat, hidup sekali di bukit sampah SSSSS +------------ linux SSSSSS be a bee, lived once in a flowery garden, SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS not a fly, lived once in heaps of garbage
