Re: Gnome advocay help/advice

[allbery ece cmu edu]

On  3 Oct, Paul G Cooper wrote:
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| I've been granted an audience with a big cheese sysadmin in the uni to
| demo gnome, hopefully to persuede him to add it to our systems as an
| alternative to cde (on solaris).
> ( . . . )
| Anyway if anyone has any idea for nifty features or neat arguments that I
| could show / use to impress then please mail me personally. Things I was
| thinking;
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I think I'd show him recent BUGTRAQ archives, where CDE's
rpc.ttdbserverd has been implicated in still *more* security holes...
and the latest patches cause ttsession to only work properly with NIS+.

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