MikeFarm
Gold Member
Hiya Dave
Yeah there are still no Linux viruses. You can still though get bad things by malicious javascript running in your browser, or being conned into installing software, and if you install as root then your gone. Its not just the Linux kernel that is safer - its the entire UNIX like system was just better designed in the first place. Security was considered right at the start.
There are just so many apps for Linux systems. Probably over several thousand. The last Windows I bought was Windows 3.1, I then tried a RedHat disto a few years later. Now Im running Debian.
My wife was a Solaris sys admin till recently.
Most of all about open source is that I like its philosophy, its openess, your not locked in to subsequent purchases and continued upgrades. These days I get very frustrated if I have to use MS Windows as it doesn't do things they way I like and it limits me as to what I can do in so many ways.
Mike
Yeah there are still no Linux viruses. You can still though get bad things by malicious javascript running in your browser, or being conned into installing software, and if you install as root then your gone. Its not just the Linux kernel that is safer - its the entire UNIX like system was just better designed in the first place. Security was considered right at the start.
There are just so many apps for Linux systems. Probably over several thousand. The last Windows I bought was Windows 3.1, I then tried a RedHat disto a few years later. Now Im running Debian.
My wife was a Solaris sys admin till recently.
Most of all about open source is that I like its philosophy, its openess, your not locked in to subsequent purchases and continued upgrades. These days I get very frustrated if I have to use MS Windows as it doesn't do things they way I like and it limits me as to what I can do in so many ways.
Mike
