On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 19:13, Richard L. Proctor wrote:
> On Saturday 10 January 2004 5:27 pm, Bart Garst wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I'm curious now. Is a systrace a tool or a technique?
> >
> > I did an `apt-cache search systrace` and nothing turned up (debian stable).
> > Should I be looking for an application or what?
> >
> > Any help is appreciated,
> > Bart
> 
> What?  you mean any newb doesn't know how to do this? ;-)
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I suppose somewhere within this smug and sarcastic comment is a point -
and it is invalid.

You absolutely miss the entire point of Linux, open source and yet have
no hesitation in running it up on a flag pole for everyone to notice.

An operating system (and when you speak of a linux distribution would
include all of the enclosed applications) are audited not by any single
person but by the collective whole. No single person I know has the
time, talents and energy to audit the entire source tree for errors or
malicious code. This audit is performed by the collective whole - the
mass of users including the few that pour through the source code to
modify it, borrow parts for other projects or just need to compile it
again for more or less features or by those who strace/systrace
processes for debugging, etc.

You really should confine your talents to 'constantly repartitioning,
changing, installing new hard ware on my 
system.' Windows provides an ample amount of opportunities to do this -
all from the click and administrate interface. It's definitely you.

Craig