Apps :: Which "openoffice" to download for 256MB system?
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..Which is one of the reasons I don't have Java..
Would you feel any safer if they used perl? Would you feel any safer if they used php? What languages are inherently safe regardless of programmer (in)familiarity with security issues?It's not about the language, some just have more "bad" uses than others. Also, perl and php are both server-side, so they couldn't do a thing to my security (if that's what you meant, of course)
And the use of Java against it's very existence and base idea is.. well, an atrocity. I have to wonder why did Sun even allow that.Thanks for the info.
It also depends what your threshhold is and how you use any app including Open Office. If you're running off CD/frugal and using a UCI, you're limiting what can be done and how long to the duration the UCI is actually loaded. If you're running a hard drive install and you install a .dsl or tar.gz extenion, your exposure is the duration of time the application is installed. Hard drive is fully persistent. Frugal/CD refreshes the base every reboot, but your persistent home and opt partition(s) doesn't -- so anything compromised in those would be permanent until fixed.
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