From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 31 4:53:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.tfcc.com (tfcci.com [204.210.226.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E45537B632 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 04:53:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfuhrman@tfcci.com) Received: (from mail@localhost) by proxy.tfcc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA19631; Thu, 31 May 2001 07:53:38 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: proxy.tfcc.com: mail set sender to using -f Received: from icestorm.tfcc.com(192.168.4.115) by proxy.tfcc.com via smap (V2.1/2.1a) id xma019626; Thu, 31 May 01 07:53:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 07:52:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Fuhrman X-X-Sender: To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Brett Glass , Subject: Re: The desktop apathy In-Reply-To: <20010531131243.C18115@lpt.ens.fr> Message-ID: Organization: 21st Century Communications MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Redhat, at one time, sold a version of CDE made by Triteal. They discontinued it due to security issues with Triteal's CDE distribution. The official Security announcement can be found here: http://lwn.net/1998/1001/a/cde.html I especially love this quote: "Because CDE is not Open Source software, we have no ability to fix either the minor bugs that have been reported over the last year, or these more important security bugs." Cheers! On Thu, 31 May 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Not for the desktop. Consider: in 1997 (when linux was roughly where > BSD is now, in terms of mindshare) the desktop scene in linux was > pathetic: Red Hat was actually selling a commercial port of CDE to > linux. (This was before they "saw the light" about selling only free > software.) - -- Chris Fuhrman | Twenty First Century Communications cfuhrman@tfcci.com | Software Engineer (W) 614-442-1215 x271 | (F) 614-442-5662 | PGP/GPG Public Key Available on Request -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: PGPEnvelope - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net iD8DBQE7FjCDtZTBgtmnGNERAohSAKDX2rgsPNwBD1f9W+7U3H2bmjXzIwCgrsOI tQmpLc3N2YQ2aCagtxkzBM0= =nSjU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message