Yes and no. It's been broken, as a result of lazy programmers, since Windows 7 came out. With the release of Vista (NT 6.0) Microsoft took a lot of complaints from users due to programs only really checking the minor number (if $MAJOR is >=5 AND $MINOR > 0 since 5.0 was Windows 2000) and installers as a result declared people to not have a recent enough Windows version to run $APPLICATION.

They ran into another problem with version numbers when Windows Vista came out. Because Windows XP lived so long (Windows 5.1, .2, .3, and .4) quite a few programers just checked the minor version, and saw Vista's minor as .0 and assumed it was Windows 2000, and said you must install XP to run this program.... It boils down to Microsoft having to cater to lazy developers whose programs make them look bad.

ChromeOS is Linux. It's just not a GNU based Linux.

Shouldn't the appropriate term being "Volcanoes can cause climate change"? Or how about Volcanoes mess stuff up, sometimes really big (see P-Tr Extinction event and Siberian Traps)

Confirmed that it works on Snow Leopard.

It's on nVidia to keep people from counterfeiting cards, it's on law enforcement to punish those who do. It's one of those problems you attack from both ends.

Or we'll just do our best to not use software under licenses that cause us trouble.

I'm going to find out. I may test on Leopard as well (since I still have a quad G5)

I was explaining it to someone (co worker) yesterday as the vulnerability is there, but there needs to be an attack vector open as well. My demo to him was on an SGI system running IRIX - Bash was vulnerable, but without AccetEnv in SSH being enabled or something like Apache CGI the exploit can't be used.

Depends on the App. I know some applications have the integration bits where it merges the menu bar with the top bar in GNOME so that it takes up less space. The theming could be a little smaller I agree....

That's a good question. I'm seeing my IRIX systems at home as vulnerable, but I have AcceptEnv disabled in sshd_config, and am not running web servers on them - I feel like the attack vectors are limited.

But your point is valid - ANY OS that uses Bash is a target.

Yes, because it's not a Linux hole. GNU Bash is the vulnerable software. So if you have Bash installed, you're vulnerable (I'm about to test the vulnerability myself).

Scripts are understood, easy to search and edit, debug and maintain. Systemd adds a layer of complexity that's not wanted. Journald means extra work as well, that nobody asked for.

    Execution speed? Not relevant.

You mean the people that are the reason Linux lives in the enterprise and on so many servers, and are the ones who can kill its presence there too.

There have been issues with AMD not keeping up on current kernels (Fedora usually runs an up to date kernel, unlike Debian), and when AMD slips for months on it's monthly update it can be troublesome. Also, somewhere around the release of Fedora 19 the guy that maintained the driver (guy's with RPMFusion, which has most of the software that Fedora can't ship, kinda like Ubuntu's nonfree repos, but not actually a part of Fedora/Red Hat for legal reasons) basically stopped maintaining the package (I think the case was he was no longer running recent AMD hardware, and wasn't going to go buy new cards or something like that).