Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.freeware, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store
Date	2015-10-07 17:36 -0700
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On 10/7/15, 5:35 PM, in article 20151008023522.0bdffc1b@maxa-pc, "Melzzzzz"
<mel@zzzzz.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 17:26:23 -0700
> Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/7/15, 4:14 PM, in article 20151008011424.3e47a3b9@maxa-pc,
>> "Melzzzzz" <mel@zzzzz.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Actually, that turns out not to be the case.
>>>> 
>>>> If you run two different applications that use their own versions
>>>> of libavcodec, you're not getting one of the big benefits of shared
>>>> libraries: saving RAM by only having one copy of the library loaded
>>>> into memory.
>>>> 
>>>> (No wonder OS X isn't happy unless it has 16GB! ;)
>>> 
>>> Having libraries bundled with application is important in closed
>>> source world when application is built against specific version of
>>> library. In open source world it is not problem as one can always
>>> rebuild application with system library but not so in closed source
>>> world. Actually what is done on OSX should be also done on Linux
>>> for closed source applications and it is usually done.
>> 
>> Most people do not want to and would not know how to rebuild an
>> application.
>> 
>> 
> 
> True. That is why there are prebuilt packages that got updated when
> libraries are upgraded. But nature of Linux is open source so sooner or
> later one wants to try to compile something from source...
> 
You and I might. Most users - not so much.


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