Recent Security vulnerability in Skype

John wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
> Umm. I'm not convinced. On the weekend I had my laptop, was far from my
> my install CDs, no internet. What if I borrowed a whatsit from my mate?

What if?  That's the OS X route.  I don't want all that bloat on my system
just because I _might_ put something on the system at a later date.  The
average user never adds hardware beyond a printer.  The average Linux user
no doubt adds a great deal more, but they're still unlikely to change
things like video drivers and modems.

>>>If, OTOH, you want a system that "just works," then when you come to
>>>upgrade to a new system or just add bits, you really dom't want to waste
>>>time and money hunting up drivers or mucking round copying disk drives.
>> 
>> 
>> I don't want to waste my disk space on all the tons of software I'll
>> never
>> use.  I could buy a Mac if I wanted to do that...
> 
> Save more by making your filesystem manually, using less than 5% spare
> space.

I don't think that's applicable to ReiserFS, anyway, but I save a lot better
than that by not installing every single thing Ubuntu provides by default.
-- 
derek