Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 6th Mar 2006 15:52 UTC, submitted by netpython
Gaining root access to a Mac is 'easy pickings', according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability. On February 22, a Sweden-based Mac enthusiast set his Mac Mini as a server and invited hackers to break through the computer's security and gain root control, which would allow the attacker to take charge of the computer and delete files and folders or install applications. Within hours of going live, the 'rm-my-mac' competition was over. The challenger posted this message on his Web site: "This sucks. Six hours later this poor little Mac was owned and this page got defaced".
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Maybe it's not the feel he's after, just the look.
And OS X's desktop feel most closely resembles Next from which it gets its MDI (multiple windows per process treated as one) and object oriented feel (the trash is a good example of an object, any throw away/removal goes their). If you wanna approximate this much on X11 I recommend WindowMaker.
The filesystem is organized, ahem, in two ways at the same time. There's the Unix layer, and then packed on top is the Mac.App stuff. I just don't know why you'd want this, but Gobolinux might get you somewhere along these lines.
And what precisely is new or unique about a DMG? How do they feel different from zips and tarballs?
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2006-02-09
Nobody seriously uses OS X as a server platform except ad/media/creative types... and they don't know when their servers are hacked anyway. In all fairness, most companies shield their servers with layers of firewall, IDS, and other security policies that would even protect a Mac.
I just wish Apple would sell me Aqua to run on my Linux desktop - I would pay $150 to have that GUI on Linux.