vista security

Sorry if this is old news to you, just ran across it.
A security feature used in the open-source world is now helping to harden Windows Vista against buffer overrun exploits.
Microsoft has quietly fitted the feature, called ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) in Windows Vista Beta 2 as part of a larger plan to make it more difficult to automate attacks against the operating system.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1969529,00.asp?kc=ewnws053106dtx1k0000599

Jone Doe wrote:

A security feature used in the open-source world is now helping to harden Windows Vista against buffer overrun exploits.

Open source rocks!
-- Gerry Hickman (London UK)

Not for Open Suse/Suse Linux 10.1, have you read the comments on OSNews about it? -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Gerry Hickman" wrote in message

Jone Doe wrote:
A security feature used in the open-source world is now helping to harden Windows Vista against buffer overrun exploits.
Open source rocks!
-- Gerry Hickman (London UK)

Hi Andre,
Well I'm sure there may be times when it's not perfect, just like Windows, but on the whole I think it rocks, and anyway, if you don't like something you can just change it, and if there's a bug you can just fix it - you don't have to wait months for Microsoft.
Do you have the URL to the article abouut Suse?
Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:

Not for Open Suse/Suse Linux 10.1, have you read the comments on OSNews about it?

-- Gerry Hickman (London UK)

Well there are major factors that will give me the incentive for waiting, way more beautiful, compatibility and I have a better knowledge of Windows than Linux.
Here's the link: http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=14778 -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Gerry Hickman" wrote in message

Hi Andre,
Well I'm sure there may be times when it's not perfect, just like Windows, but on the whole I think it rocks, and anyway, if you don't like something you can just change it, and if there's a bug you can just fix it - you don't have to wait months for Microsoft.
Do you have the URL to the article abouut Suse?
Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote: Not for Open Suse/Suse Linux 10.1, have you read the comments on OSNews about it?
-- Gerry Hickman (London UK)

Hi Andre,
I don't really see anything in the article that says anything bad about open-source. They seem to be bickering about laptops and cost.
Suse is only one distribution, and they always throw in a lot of experimental stuff which isn't going to work straight away.
These guys throwing Suse onto Laptops is a bit like someone is this group throwing Vista onto their stand-alone XP pro box and then getting upset when something wasn't perfect.
The bottom line, is that with open-source, if you don't like something, you can CHANGE it, but with Windows you're stuck with what you're given...
In some ways, with Linux there's too much variety, and this prevents the possibility of a "One Linux fits all" CD that any home user can just hit "install" and have instant gratification.
Behind the scenes, you can have 10 times better daemons and security than on Windows, and 10 times faster too, and ability to manage 10 times more workstations in a tenth of the time, but for those who need a GUI or want to play a Direct3d game, it's hopeless!
Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:

Well there are major factors that will give me the incentive for waiting, way more beautiful, compatibility and I have a better knowledge of Windows than Linux.
Here's the link: http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=14778

-- Gerry Hickman (London UK)

Well, at first, the sound of the comments were more about compatibility and performance, I guess the direction changed since it was posted. Linux still has a long way to go, I say cut the distributions down to the top five, Redhat/Fedora, NLD/Suse, Debian, Unbuntu, Mandriva. No other distributions should be derived from those although Unbuntu is derived from Debian, but leav it at and build upon those five. I definitely can see choice, flexibility and complete set for developers develop a platform on. -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta "Gerry Hickman" wrote in message

Hi Andre,
I don't really see anything in the article that says anything bad about open-source. They seem to be bickering about laptops and cost.
Suse is only one distribution, and they always throw in a lot of experimental stuff which isn't going to work straight away.
These guys throwing Suse onto Laptops is a bit like someone is this group throwing Vista onto their stand-alone XP pro box and then getting upset when something wasn't perfect.
The bottom line, is that with open-source, if you don't like something, you can CHANGE it, but with Windows you're stuck with what you're given...
In some ways, with Linux there's too much variety, and this prevents the possibility of a "One Linux fits all" CD that any home user can just hit "install" and have instant gratification.
Behind the scenes, you can have 10 times better daemons and security than on Windows, and 10 times faster too, and ability to manage 10 times more workstations in a tenth of the time, but for those who need a GUI or want to play a Direct3d game, it's hopeless!
Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote: Well there are major factors that will give me the incentive for waiting, way more beautiful, compatibility and I have a better knowledge of Windows than Linux.
Here's the link: http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=14778
-- Gerry Hickman (London UK)