Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Installation of authenticated binaries is a good idea. Its a > way of ensuring that you are installing the binary that your > distribution intended you to install. It reduces the likelihood > of you and others installing compromised software.
Well, I'm happy to follow advice in this matter. Even so, I'm still curious about unauthenticated software. What's the rationale in producing it? > It should also be noted that the first time Linux suffers a > widespread infection of malware will be the most damaging > in terms of the reputation of Linux. That will be the time > that the microsofties will be able to say "look, Linux is > just as bad". They probably will, but I don't think it will be catastrophic. I remember when a virus was finally produced for Apple machines. The microsofties reacted as you said, but Apple's reply was "It took you ages to produce a virus that worked and, in any event, we were on to it like a shot." Linux has more than its fair share of geeks and I'm always astonished at their ingenuity. > LANG= > sudo apt-get update Well, I did, although I like to know what I'm doing. The sudo etc I understand, but what's LANG= please? Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
