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something I wondered for a while do windows viruses get ported by such efforts as well?
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Btw if you're running an OS that's never had a malware incident, please, tell us!
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AUR got hit recently [0], by what looks like more work of TeamPCP and friends. EDIT: Worth noting, Arch ain't hosted on AUR. That's the community side only. [0] https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-malicious-packages-inc...
I would still note that this is not some kind of unique problem to Linux. There have been documented instances of malware making it to the Play Store, which is supposed to have a much more rigorous vetting process than AUR and costs actual money to publish on.
I can still happily upgrade via pacman without fear. Haven't been able to update on Windows without concern for over a decade - the malware comes builtin.
[0] https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/CSRB%20Revi...
something I wondered for a while do windows viruses get ported by such efforts as well?
something I wondered for a while do windows viruses get ported by such efforts as well?
Somewhere in the docs they state that they must also recreate whatever bugs the API has, otherwise applications written with those bugs as an (implicit) assumption could misbehave.
so you can set an app to use a Windows XP compatibility profile, and this will simulate Windows bugs which were fixed in more recent versions of the OS
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Isn't it funny how such incidents on Linux are rare enough that they make headlines, but on Windows that's been the baseline expected state of things for so long that nobody bats an eye anymore. Btw if you're running an OS that's never had a malware incident, please, tell us!
the ransomware campaigns would have happened on any OS enterprises use, because they were not security flaws in the OS
Given enough time, open-source will win. Just think about how more and more people are programming and how that will draw them to open-source.
Given enough time, open-source will win. Just think about how more and more people are programming and how that will draw them to open-source.
more people and AI
The better the specs of a commercial product, the easier it would be to produce an open source version it, with coding and testing automation perhaps even a one-to-one offering.
It's definitely a huge improvement towards "FOSS Windows."