ilia_kr Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 An interesting article i found at: Theo de Raadt (the founder of OpenBSD) criticises X.org/XFree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 Most systems have bugs at some point, which get plugged and fixed. SSH has recently had such vulnerabilities. Best thing is to use a firewall, to stop access to the vulnerabilities. Luckily my dsl router has a firewall built-in, but then I also have a hardware firewall behind this, because my original router didn't have a firewall, but NAT only, which in itself does help protect you more than just a standard internet connection using a USB DSL modem or similar. Software firewalls are then next, and since we have Linux, we have shorewall, which is the bees knees. So as long as you have this, you shouldn't really have a problem, providing it's configured correctly :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted May 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Sure, you're right, but do you agree with this concept? Is it really a bug? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 I wouldn't say it's a bug since it's being done purposely. A bug is unintentional. And besides, some process will have to have direct access to the devices anyways, so the hole will always be there in some form or another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 Most likely a feature :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted May 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 The author compares X server operation to MS graphycs mechanism, and sais that running graphycs is better under the supervision of an OS. Is it? I think that X way is faster. Also, how does the GUI works in BSD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 The author compares X server operation to MS graphycs mechanism, and sais that running graphycs is better under the supervision of an OS. Is it? I think that X way is faster. Also, how does the GUI works in BSD? because of it's design, X has forced *bsd to allow it do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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