[buug] re: kde and OpenBSD
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue Jul 17 09:37:57 PDT 2001
begin Robert Roberts quotation:
> Did not want to do X-windows.
Then, you probably don't want KDE. ;-> [1]
> I also read somewhere that X-windows introduces additional security
> hazards. What additional security risks are presented by KDE, if any?
There's a CORBA object broker that theoretically constitutes another
point of attack. But, generally speaking, KDE is not really a thing in
itself, at all -- other than having a marketing campaign, a
characteristic window manager (kwm), and a common graphical toolkit
(Qt): It's really just a suite of X11 clients, any of which you can
run without the others, as long as you meet library dependencies and
such.
[1] Strictly speaking, there's no such thing as "X-Windows". Its name
is "X", "X11", or "the X Window System".
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