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RE: Closed source & Secutiry (was: Re: Smooth wall - moredetailed) detailed)



Hi all,
I think that you are all mistaken when you state that the source world is
either black or white!
There are cases when it is good to have a closed source, and cases where it
is good to have open source.
For example, regarding the statement about the alledged NSA key; Microsoft
is a high profile american company, and thus you could say that it could be
trusted. If the NSA wants to put a key inside microsoft products, i am all
for it, since their ultimate goal is to spot terrorist groups and
anti-democratic organizations. if however, a client, like the mirc client
that is produced closed sourced by a pro palestinian entity i would be
highly suspisious of it, and of course i don't use it.
So the bottom line, its who do you trust, and understanding the pro and cons
of your decision. there are no black or white issues in such a wide issue as
sources availability.

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Tzahi Fadida
Tzahi@mailandnews.com
Fax (+1 Outside the US) 240-597-3213
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-----Original Message-----
From: linux-il-bounce@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-bounce@cs.huji.ac.il]On
Behalf Of Shachar Shemesh
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 5:44 PM
Cc: linux-il@linux.org.il
Subject: Re: Closed source & Secutiry (was: Re: Smooth wall - moredetailed)
detailed)


Ilya Konstantinov wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:18:09AM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote:
>
>>that bring me to a point I could not find a answer yet...
>>is there a system that will announce to me new versions of various
packages
>>?
>>
>
>On Debian, you could see the latest packages available to you by
>issuing 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade -u'. Other distros may
>have similar systems, some for subscribtion and some are free.
>
I'll make that point even harsher.

If you run apt-get upgrade -u, your system will actually be upgraded.

If you only want to know whether there is an upgrade, run it from a cron
job, and give it an option to not perform the actual download. This way
you will get exactly what you want, for all (and only) the packages
installed on your system.

            Sh.



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