On 1/20/06, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, that was flamebait, and you bit. -10 points :)
Damn! And here I was thinking that the nice worm wiggling in front of
my eyes was fair game. :-)
> People tend to assume that Linux is secure, stable, efficient,
> etc. per se. It's not -- it has all these qualities because of the
> FLOSS development process.
Crossover Office is a commercial version of Wine. It is basically wind
with some nice geewhiz UI for installation, configuration and such.
The guys at Codeweavers sometimes extend wine and give their
modifications back to the community. I assume that your beef is not
with the Xover, but with the Windows applications that could be run
over it.
> Since a system is only as stable, secure
> or efficient as its weakest component, adding programs that have not
> been developed using that process to Linux means that you're dragging
> the whole system down to an insecure, unstable, inefficient
> configuration. If you're going to do that anyway, why bother to use
> Linux in the first place? Much simpler to cough up for Winduhs and
> let the problem be Microsoft's (or, as is usually the case, no one's
> at all).
But isn't running IE on top of Xover inherantly safer than running IE
on Windows? I have not heard of malware being installed through IE
running on Xover. OTOH, I have heard of lots of incidents where
malware entering a Windows system through IE. BTW, I know we are
talking about Outlook and IE. I use IE to illustrate the point that
running Windows applications on Xover is inherantly safer than running
the application natively on Windows.
The fact of the matter is that ability to connect and use Exchange's
Mail and Calendaring on a completely open source platform is broken at
the moment. Xover gives a nice bridge while we are waiting for
Evolution to evolve to more stability.
Thaths
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