Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 23, 2003 02:21 PM
Sorry, but either you're not aware or are not checking to see how many times you've been scanned or attacked.
I watch my logs and can tell you that I'm constantly attacked on my DSL connection. If it were not for a firewall, I'd be compromised many times per day. When I had a MS tech tell me to turn off the firewall to install something, I laughed and told him I'd have to disconnect the modem before I'd disable the firewall. What a joke.
It's not anti-MS bull, as you put it. It's just fact. I will admit that I have not had to reboot my win2k box as many times as my 98 box, but still have issues with resources going down the tubes, forcing reboot. In linux, that just doesn't happen - at least not on my boxes (five). I also don't have reboot linux just to install and run an application. The only time I've had to reboot a linux box is with a kernel upgrade and even then, if I don't need to use the recompiled kernel right away, I can wait for a convenient time to do so.
You're calling linux users liars, but you come across as the typical MS clone with typical FUD when it comes to MS. I have found windows to be very difficult to deal with - constant forced upgrades, no way to fix broken apps because of closed config source, etc. I've had to discard more software apps and waste more money on things that don't work than I care to count in the MS world. In linux, they can be made to work, are mostly try-before-you-buy or actually free. I donate freely to those developers whose apps and servers I use.
As for virii, I don't get infected because I don't open email in windows if there is html or attachments. I send them to the linux box. I receive at least 100 infected emails a day that will not effect a linux box. I run AV on all systems regardless of OS and NIDS on the linux LAN. I have over 68,000 entries in the IDS logs for windows attacks and a trickle of attempted hacks for unix/linux.
So you can't be very honest and say that you are not attacked in any way. If you have not been infected with a virus, it's because you're careful or don't get email. So stop with the FUD.
Learn about Linux
Download Linux
Get Linux help
Re:Some of my survey answers
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 23, 2003 02:21 PMI watch my logs and can tell you that I'm constantly attacked on my DSL connection. If it were not for a firewall, I'd be compromised many times per day. When I had a MS tech tell me to turn off the firewall to install something, I laughed and told him I'd have to disconnect the modem before I'd disable the firewall. What a joke.
It's not anti-MS bull, as you put it. It's just fact. I will admit that I have not had to reboot my win2k box as many times as my 98 box, but still have issues with resources going down the tubes, forcing reboot. In linux, that just doesn't happen - at least not on my boxes (five). I also don't have reboot linux just to install and run an application. The only time I've had to reboot a linux box is with a kernel upgrade and even then, if I don't need to use the recompiled kernel right away, I can wait for a convenient time to do so.
You're calling linux users liars, but you come across as the typical MS clone with typical FUD when it comes to MS. I have found windows to be very difficult to deal with - constant forced upgrades, no way to fix broken apps because of closed config source, etc. I've had to discard more software apps and waste more money on things that don't work than I care to count in the MS world. In linux, they can be made to work, are mostly try-before-you-buy or actually free. I donate freely to those developers whose apps and servers I use.
As for virii, I don't get infected because I don't open email in windows if there is html or attachments. I send them to the linux box. I receive at least 100 infected emails a day that will not effect a linux box. I run AV on all systems regardless of OS and NIDS on the linux LAN. I have over 68,000 entries in the IDS logs for windows attacks and a trickle of attempted hacks for unix/linux.
So you can't be very honest and say that you are not attacked in any way. If you have not been infected with a virus, it's because you're careful or don't get email. So stop with the FUD.
#