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Only 3 years?

"""If you'd take your head out of Microsoft's behind for a minute, shake the crap off and look around, you might find that there really are better alternatives. I've been using Windows 40 hours a week for the last three years, so I probably know a little bit more about it than you know about Macs or Linux. You just imagine
that things are just as bad in other OSes because you have no experience to contradict that misconception."""

So you have been using Windows for 40 hours a week for 3 years and that makes you an expert? I have been playing with Linux (although not 40 hours a week) for longer than that. When I first started using computers at work it was on a thin client using Unix and when I got a PC for home to play with it was running Tandy's version of DOS. I have used or played with Unix, DOS, CMP Windows and Linux. I have studied when I was in college both basic and Pascal (old language I know, but used then).

Security is the field I work in and I try to keep up to date with the problems with all OS's not just one. Since I am mainly hardware I don't claim to be an expert in programming although I have done a little and the one thing I have learned is that NO OS is free from problems that someone, if they wanted to, could use to create problems. How hard it would be to do so depends on the OS. The problems created depends on how the OS is setup and what permissions is granted to the user. I have not had a virus or anything else hit my machine either at work or home because I know how to secure it and what to do or not do.

Bottom line, is windows easy to hit, yes. Is Linux or OSX harder, yes. Are Linux or OSX free from defects that could allow someone who wanted to, to write a virus or something for it, no. They have defects just like anything else produced by a human.

So use Linux or OSX or Unix or whatever but if you think that you will always be safe without taking normal precautions, you will wake up some day with a big headache from your "safe" system.

Posted by: richhayes   Posted on: 07/23/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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