On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:10:24PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > I am just wondering: could all this fuzz indicate a lack of quality > control? I mean - i don't think knew that it was shipping the string > "erect penis"... > > Ill always thought that RH read through all code they shipped - so no > package could somhow place a backdoor on my system. Was i wrong? This specific badly chosen set of descriptions has been known to be in the the screensaver package for some time now. For the most part no one was offended and after a giggle we moved on as adults do. In all of this note that there are three major components in a Linux distribution. * The kernel. * Utilities * The window system. -- and other applications. Strictly speaking only the kernel is "Linux". The utilities are dominatly GNU utilities. The windowing system is from the xorg/xfree86 project. Next if you organize things interms of functionality and importance the first critical path is the kernel. Data integrety and security begin in the kernel. Next in importance are the utilities and windowing system. The LAST thing the most of us interact with is the screen saver. If you are working on the keyboard it never kicks in except for things like lunch or a meetings when it goes all the way to powersaving mode. To be sure the names of many French cheeses are much less apealing in English than they are in French. The IMPORTANT point in this thread is that these have been renamed. Someone made a clear case for changing them and filed a bug and the troubling names will be gone in FC3 if not sooner. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Just say no to 74LS73 in 2004
