Re: Linux is as buggy as Windows
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Date: 10/19/03
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Date: 19 Oct 2003 01:05:32 +0200
Leythos <void@nowhere.com> writes:
>You can't honestly tell me that Linux on the desktop makes it easier for
>people to work! I have people that have not even learned how to insert a
>floppy disk and you want them to install one of the open office products
>on a Linux system?
No, I'd give those a nanny to wipe their nose - and a lolly. The latter
only if they're capable of using it properly. If they throw a tantrum
send 'em to bed without dinner.
> At least I can have them run down to the local
>computer store, purchase Office XP, and in 20 minutes it's up and
>running, and in another 10 minutes it's fully patched (office that is).
... when it will be already 0wn3d. The fastest time reported a few
days ago in n.a.n-a.email is 8 seconds, and it usually takes a few
minutes. Besides, your 10 minutes will probably become an hour or more
for people who do not have a T1 or DSL.
> and Linux was - if you don't know enough
>to download the ISO images you can't install it.
Wrong. A friend of mine merely sent an addressed envelope to the right
institution to receive 2 copies of the Knoppix-CD, one of them for me.
>Windows was designed to be a no-brainer and it works fine. Along comes
>easy access to the internet
You make it sound as if that happened yesterday - but it happened
during the last millenium, and way before 1999. So they had more than
enough time to fix that, but they didn't. That fact says a lot about
Winzigweich's contempt of the suckers who buy their crap. Also their
hiring a lawyer as head of software development security about 18
months ago tells us that they don't think of improving their product,
but of twisting the facts. After, that's what lawyers are paid to do.
>So, answer me this - how come there are still monthly compromises of
>Linux workstations and servers?
Of course it's all human work and thus can not be perfect. Just like
both a cardboard box and armour plating do not offer _perfect_ security.
You may choose a cardboard box for protection when the air is thick
with bullets but I prefer armour plating.
>Don't tell me it's not Linux, that it's
>the applications, windows would be as secure if it didn't include the
>applications with it.
IE/OE are not applications, but part of Windows. Besides, for most
application type purposes on Linux/FreeBSD/... you have the choice of
several different programs. The crackers have to find holes for all of
these.
-- The first entry of Sin into the mind occurs when, out of cowardice or conformity or vanity, the Real is replaced by a comforting lie. -- Integritas, Consonantia, Claritas
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