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mclane
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Re: Speaking of Windows

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We here in europe (EU) have to get rid of windows and google operating systems.
E.g. for mobile phones Sailfish is a good alternative.

Instead of windows i have not found one operating system where i can run all my beloved chess programs. That is the problem.

We need IMO a European operating system. But it must be capable to run windows or dos in a sandbox.
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We all have to start programming in Rust: it offers better protection against memory vulnerabilities like buffer overflow than most languages.

IIRC Google has taken steps to ensure that, going forward, it's new software is hardened against memory exploits, and its own languages (e.g. Dart) have been hardened.
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