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	2015-10-08 16:33 -0700
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On 10/8/15, 1:13 PM, in article mv6ikm$l8k$1@dont-email.me, "Peter Köhlmann"
<peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote:

>>> Since when will software modify itself just because it is GPL?
>>> 
>>> It is problematic to port linux/unix GUI softwware to OSX. You have to
>>> run
>> 
>> ...this is one of the reasons that I don't like Wayland (or Mir).
>> 
>>    It will push Linux farther away from other Unixen and make it less
>> cross compatible. Linux will be like Macs with their own graphics layer
>> and associated APIs to code against.
> 
> I do not care that much for crosscompatibility against other Unix.
> Because the X functionality remains also in Wayland, so you still have the
> advantages of X while getting rid of the old code needed to be kept in X
> which is not used with modern programs.
> 
> Effectivly DEs like Gnome and KDE have already put a layer over X which
> needs to be present in other Unix too to run those programs (one of the
> reasons why so much of the linux stuff can't be run on OSX without major
> rewrites).

You can also install X on OS X... but few do because there is no need for
the general user.

> And Wayland is not the only linux-only stuff which will make if difficult
> for other unix to be compatible to linux. Init-systems like Systemd are
> needed in the long run and are already adopted by most major linux distros.
> 
> 
> So other unix system will have to adapt stuff like Wayland or Systemd too in
> the long run, and I am quite certain they will.

I bet you will be able to run it on OS X if you want... but few will want
to. Why would they want to run, mostly, Linux software when they have OS X
software? 

Still, good that you CAN if needed.

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Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-07 12:33 -0600
  Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 11:47 -0700
  Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-10-07 21:44 +0200
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 12:52 -0700
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