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Subject: Re: Is Fruit 2.2 weakened by additional security code?

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 02:47:22 10/11/05

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On October 11, 2005 at 05:19:50, Joseph Tadeusz wrote:

>On October 11, 2005 at 04:08:36, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>
>>For the information Fruit_21_static for linux was 617kb while the self compiled
>>fruit21 was 100kb.
>>So the file size of fruit22 in my opinion is _not_ due to the security code but
>>from static linking to run on many different systems.
>
>
>Fruit 2.2 is certainly less compatible.
>
>Fruit 2.1 runs perfectly on my SuSE 7.0, but 2.2 gives:
>
> user@linux:~/fruit_22 > ./fruit_22
> FATAL: kernel too old
> Segmentation fault
>
>I didn't buy it and didn't intend to.
>
>It looks they sacrificed compatibility for security.

that is certainly not the case. The Linux-Binary 2.2 was compiled with GCC since
there was no one available with the Intel-compiler. I think it is an issue with
the Compiler.

Joachim



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