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I don't really see ease of use differences between any polished OS besides OSX, which is just because finder is odd. Maybe they think the terminal is too powerf

I don't really see ease of use differences between any polished OS besides OSX, which is just because finder is odd. Maybe they think the terminal is too powerful?

uAren_tWong 10y ago
I think the deal is that Linux is notoriously open sourced, such that it is somewhat difficult to think of the one without the other. Those bearing a kind of grudge may be tempted or inclined to derive a certain pleasure from the intellectual satisfaction that might come from ascertaining some personal (read: idiosyncratic) knowledge of how to entertain the 'open-sourcedness' of that mindset to an extrema. If that is so, then the vulnerability described is likely to be an issue, perhaps later, perhaps sooner, but within some given time frame during which the ubiquity of the 'net will be ever expanding. Perhaps the solution is to guide the users in some very 'user' friendly adaptation of a 'man. page' that describes with elegant confidence the methodologies germane to creating a keycode that would allow for said 'users' to give themselves the safety from the perchance nefariously driven 'code poets' who would otherwise be able to derive social insecurity from whatever access might be available to them. Long winded reply to say we need to not think about stoppping using Linux, but instead use a nice little intro for those who don't know enough (or even very little) regarding how to code a patch in their own kernel. Given that the tech will be integrating NLP more and more, I could even imagine a 'talk through' with some 'Ask Jeeves'-esque personal assistant. The whole thing is essentially a trust issue. Who's writing the code and who's debugging it to give all of the nUbs (yes, I use the old abbrev.) enough insight to give a little polish and shine to their appliances and machines. Whew, lotta writing there :d
Locke1689 10y ago
You're both missing the point. They're talking about kernel security -- when they refer to "usability" they mean compatibility and ease of programming for user-mode applications interfacing with the kernel ABI. This has nothing to do with non-programmers.
- helthanatos 10y ago
  No kidding!
- sqeaky 10y ago
  They are the ones who brought up non-programmers and that is why I accused them of being light on details. I agree that point is preposterous, but it is their point.

I don't really see ease of use differences between any polished OS besides OSX, which is just because finder is odd. Maybe they think the terminal is too powerful?

uAren_tWong 10y ago

I think the deal is that Linux is notoriously open sourced, such that it is somewhat difficult to think of the one without the other. Those bearing a kind of grudge may be tempted or inclined to derive a certain pleasure from the intellectual satisfaction that might come from ascertaining some personal (read: idiosyncratic) knowledge of how to entertain the 'open-sourcedness' of that mindset to an extrema. If that is so, then the vulnerability described is likely to be an issue, perhaps later, perhaps sooner, but within some given time frame during which the ubiquity of the 'net will be ever expanding. Perhaps the solution is to guide the users in some very 'user' friendly adaptation of a 'man. page' that describes with elegant confidence the methodologies germane to creating a keycode that would allow for said 'users' to give themselves the safety from the perchance nefariously driven 'code poets' who would otherwise be able to derive social insecurity from whatever access might be available to them. Long winded reply to say we need to not think about stoppping using Linux, but instead use a nice little intro for those who don't know enough (or even very little) regarding how to code a patch in their own kernel. Given that the tech will be integrating NLP more and more, I could even imagine a 'talk through' with some 'Ask Jeeves'-esque personal assistant. The whole thing is essentially a trust issue. Who's writing the code and who's debugging it to give all of the nUbs (yes, I use the old abbrev.) enough insight to give a little polish and shine to their appliances and machines. Whew, lotta writing there :d

Locke1689 10y ago

You're both missing the point. They're talking about kernel security -- when they refer to "usability" they mean compatibility and ease of programming for user-mode applications interfacing with the kernel ABI. This has nothing to do with non-programmers.

helthanatos 10y ago
No kidding!
sqeaky 10y ago
They are the ones who brought up non-programmers and that is why I accused them of being light on details. I agree that point is preposterous, but it is their point.