Microsoft Breaking Linux Networking?
DOOManiac
Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
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<div class="IPBDescription">As found on Knoppix forums...</div>I found a thread called <a href='http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2164' target='_blank'>Evidence WinXP "security updates" may break Linux</a> on <a href='http://www.knoppix.net' target='_blank'>knoppix.net</a> while trying to find things out about that particular distro. Too many threads to just post a quote here, so go read it for yourself.
Certain things about this make me feel that this may indeed be legit stuff. For one, there isn't a rabid amount of zealot-ism that most Linux forums display. In fact, the people posting there seem downright reasonable about things. Also supposedly other people there have tested this a lot and all get the same results: Linux networking broken after installing a WinXP Security Update...
Very interesting indeed.
Lets try to talk about this w/o fanboyism and rabid bashing of one side of the fence or the other "just because". I don't want to see this thread locked. I can't wait to hear something from some of the peeps here who are pro's w/ the networking stuffs.
Certain things about this make me feel that this may indeed be legit stuff. For one, there isn't a rabid amount of zealot-ism that most Linux forums display. In fact, the people posting there seem downright reasonable about things. Also supposedly other people there have tested this a lot and all get the same results: Linux networking broken after installing a WinXP Security Update...
Very interesting indeed.
Lets try to talk about this w/o fanboyism and rabid bashing of one side of the fence or the other "just because". I don't want to see this thread locked. I can't wait to hear something from some of the peeps here who are pro's w/ the networking stuffs.
Comments
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It's a bug, not a conspiracy. More likely caused by MS not testing against a third-party addon app like Knoppix. Because, well, why should they? It's used by a whopping 50 people on earth, for a competitor's product. They barely test against Netware and that company, diminished as it is, has about 100x the business market share of Linux...
(Yes, that was an exageration - you can also refer to it as something called 'hyperbole'. I'm sure knoppix has closer to 100 users... <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> )
You know of the x-box Linux project?
It's a competition to find the best way to get linux to run on an x-box.
Why so special? Microsoft claims the x-box would dissallow such an attempt and anything of that kind, in short: they say it's impossible.
007 game for x-box, save game file has a buffer overload. So using that someone managed to reference a linux file and get linux to start on the x-box <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
though why any one would want to (aside from 'for the heck of it') I don't know <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Not only getting an extremely cheap, semi-decent, computer, but you make a name for yourself as the guy (or girl) who did what Microsoft set out to stop. If that's not worth putting on a resume, then I don't know what is.
But, we are going off-topic. As much as I dislike the "man" (any faceless corporation I can place blame on as much as possible), I really don't think that Microsoft is out to kill Knoppix, simply because Knoppix isn't much of a threat to Microsoft. It would be nice for someone to track WHY the Windows XP security update would change EEPROM settings on a NIC card, but I think it was just something that wasn't tested by Microsoft, because they didn't think it was necessary. The fact that it broke a competitor is probably just a bonus to them.
-Ryan!
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One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
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