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Is it stable and secure?
- Unlike closed, proprietary software, OSS is subjected to intense,
constant peer-review.
- Bugs are much more likely to be found early, and reported to the
maintainers.
- Can't Crackers use the source to break in?
- Security risks (bugs which allow someone to do things they shouldn't)
are generally found first by a concerned user than by a cracker.
- When a cracker does find the "exploit" first, analysis of the
exploit on the early compromised machines results in very fast response.
- Knowledge of a bug makes bug-finding easier.
- What about Crackers installing backdoors?
- Peer review prevents this in official version.
- Always use official, trusted sources.
- What about Year 2000?
- Unix doesn't count time using two digits, but rather is counted in
number of seconds since January 1, 1970. A 32-bit system such as x86
Linux should thus have no date problems through the year 2038.
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Y2000 statement from SuSE.
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