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	2015-10-09 13:48 -0700
Message-ID	<D23D763A.5FB3F%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
References	(16 earlier) <mv3sj4$29r$1@dont-email.me> <slrnn1dfvc.2u1.jedi@nomad.mishnet> <WLadnaetio3k34rLnZ2dnUU7-cOdnZ2d@bresnan.com> <D23CA4B7.5F9FF%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <TdidndvwzYLlioXLnZ2dnUU7-U2dnZ2d@bresnan.com>

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On 10/9/15, 12:37 PM, in article
TdidndvwzYLlioXLnZ2dnUU7-U2dnZ2d@bresnan.com, "GreyCloud" <cumulus@mist.com>
wrote:

>>>> ...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.
>>> 
>>> X11 has nothing to do with UNIX.  There was also an X11 for the old
>>> Amigas.  It's the desktop metaphor that matters, and X11 is a major
>>> sphagetti mess.
>>> Desktop linux would be better off with a streamlined GUI engine built
>>> from scratch.
>> 
>> What is weird is how the herd cannot tell the difference between UNIX and
>> X11. They are NOT the same!
>> 
>> 
> X was a design from MIT by the students working the project, so go
> figure.  Later it took a lot of work by IBM, DEC, Sun, SGI, and HP to
> get X to work correctly, but by then it was an unorganized mess.
> X isn't part of the UNIX specification and never was.  Even Microsoft
> worked on parts of it in regards to widgets.

Yet we hear Linux folks time and time again saying it is important for a
"real" UNIX... or a Unix-like OS. This is when even the open source group
notes that OS X is the world's most popular UNIX and it does not come with
X!


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Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-10-08 14:11 -0500
  Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-10-08 22:13 +0200
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-08 16:33 -0700
  Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-10-09 00:58 +0200
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-08 22:29 -0600
  Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-08 16:06 -0700
  Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-08 22:28 -0600
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-08 22:54 -0700
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-09 13:37 -0600
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-09 13:48 -0700
          Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-09 20:09 -0600
            Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-09 19:14 -0700
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-09 10:52 -0400

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